Use Hoya Enhancing Filters
Hobbyist and professional photographers both enjoy creative ways to enhance and alter their images. Hoya enhancing filters allow any photographer to manipulate their photos during the shooting process by attaching a simple disc shaped piece of glass over their lens. Using filters eliminates the need for post-shooting computer manipulation. Saturation to enhance color, the softening of imperfect skin and reducing shine on objects such as chrome car fenders are just a few enhancements Hoya filters can bring to your photographs.
Instructions
Attaching Hoya Filters to the Lens
1. Choose the correct filter size by reading information off the SLR camera lens, not the camera body. Look for a series of numbers detailing the focal length and aperture of the lens. The filter size for the lens will be included with tat information. Look for a circle symbol with a line through it. It is similar to the universal "no" symbol. The number next to this symbol is your filter size for that particular lens.
2. Lay the filter over the end of the lens. Use the threaded screw mount on the Hoya filter to secure it to the lens. Twist the filter clockwise to tighten the filter to the lens. Remove the filter later by turning it counter-clockwise.
3. Layer filters for a more effects. Attach one filter, then lay the second atop the first, and thread them together with a clockwise turn.
Using Hoya Filters
4. Choose the best filter for the type of enhancements desired. Hoya skylight and ultraviolet light (UV) filters improve image clarity, color balance and protects the end of the lens from moisture or abrasive damage. These filters can easily be combined with other filters and are useful for every type of photography where detail is important.
5. Add a Hoya polarizing filter to the lens. Decreasing reflections off shiny surfaces, including bodies of water, makes it easier to take pictures of fish or underwater fauna. This type of filter also increases contrast and color saturation.
6. Create a soft, dream-like image with Hoya soft-focus filters. These diffuse the sharpness of the image giving a smooth soft quality to portraits of infants, landscapes and softens wrinkles in portraits of the elderly. Do not pair a Hoya skylight or UV filter with a soft focus filter if you want to diminish fine details, such as impurities in skin tones and texture.
7. Select a cross-screen filter for dramatic effects. Shooting pictures of candle flames with a Hoya cross screen filter, also known as a star filter, extends the illumination from the flame. This creates shooting rays of light across the photograph. This is a popular option among photographers shooting the unity candle lighting during a wedding ceremony.
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