whoa we're not quite there right yet but in this video I am gonna show you how to
use nd filters with the Osmo Pocket more specifically the Polar Pro ND filters
so let's get right into it alright guys I just got this box from Polar Pro so
I'm gonna open up and show you what's inside one thing I will say before I
unbox it Polar Pro has the best reputation for DJI products and for
drone products in terms of having the best glass so if you're looking for ND
filters for your drone or your DJI product I would recommend polar Pro
because of the quality of glass but even if a company has a good reputation it's
still worth testing it out to see how it holds up so we're going do that in this
video and there we are so inside I have the nd 4 8 and 16 and
then I also have the nd 32 64 and then the 32 and 64 with the ND filter and the
polarizers so basically as the numbers go up it's gonna get darker so I always
like to say that nd filters are kind of like sunglasses for your lens so looking
at these Polar Pro filters you can see that nd 4 is gonna be the least amount
of darkness then nd 8 is gonna be darker and the 16 is gonna be even darker and
then we go all the way up to 64 which is gonna stop down the most levels of
darkness and then if you look at ND32 PL and nd 64 PL that means it's gonna
have both the ND filter which is gonna make it darker it's not gonna affect the
colors or anything else but the polarizer will the polarizer will really
make the colors more vivid especially the blues and the green so you can
expect to see plants trees the ocean the sky anything like that that's blue or
green it's gonna pop out a little more and one thing I will say these
polarisers come in these really nice cases so when you open it up it feels
like a lot quality has this little magnet when it
shuts it just stays shut and then you open it up and there they are
and then most of all inside when you take it out you're gonna see that it
comes in this nice little plastic case so having this plastic case it holds up
to six different filters so if I wanted to I could even take some filters from
over here and I can put them in here or I could just select my favorite filters
put them in here and then go and the one I'm talking about right now is the 32
and the 64 with both the NDS and the polarizer so this other case has three
inside or actually let's take a look at that one more time
all right guys what's going on it's early in the morning and as you can see
we have the beautiful sky rise right here Miami skyline and I set up the Osmo
pocket right here and what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna take a few pictures first
to show you that I'm not really using that slow of a shutter even though it's
early in the morning you still need a ND filter to make the ocean look kind of
silky smooth so right now you can see all these ripples all these waves in the
ocean and basically what I want to do is I want to make it look more like a
silky-smooth Lake instead of an ocean so I don't want to see any of the ripples I
just want that to be completely flat completely smooth in order to do that we
needed to use an ND filter so i'm gonna start with an ND I'd say ND 8 because
it's already bright enough in the morning that I think we needed nd 8 and
then I think we need to slow it down to at least a couple seconds so I'm going
to try to slow it down to at least 2 seconds my shutter speed but we'll make
adjustments as we go so first I'm gonna take this picture this is what it looks
like and I'm about one eighth of a second and as you can see the skyline is
super sharp and so are the waves we want to get rid of them so I'm gonna put the
ND 8 filter on the Osmo pocket right now and we'll go
there have my nd8 filter right here I'm gonna pull it out right now
okay and super small by the way you don't realize how small these filters
are but the Osmo pockets so small so I'm gonna put that away so the nice thing
about this ND filter is that it's very magnetic so all I have to do just have
the polar Pro side on the top and I just stick it to the front and there it is it
just sticks right to the Osmo pocket all right these birds are going crazy so now
that it's on the front I'm gonna take the picture we'll see how it turns out
this is the end eh alright so the first thing I do is go into manual mode and
then I slow my shutter down all the way to about one second okay I just look for
the right exposure that looks about right and then I just take the picture
and as you can see I put it on timer so I'm not going to touch it so there's
gonna be no movement during that one second of the pictures taken once the
picture is taken that's what we get and as you can see the ocean is much
smoother in comparison with the shot that I took without the filter you can
see with a polar Pro filter let a lot more light in and obviously I took these
at two different times so it's gonna be the Sun was slightly different but not
that much but because the ND filter is on I have to use a slower shutter so I'm
letting light in over a longer period of time and it looks more cinematic to my
eye because the light is coming in over a longer period of time it's getting all
that stuff in the atmosphere from the Sun and the light and it's creating that
more cinematic look and I really like the ocean being nice and slow however I
want it kind of slower than that I want it to look even more like a lake even
more silky-smooth so in order to do that I have to slow my shutter down even more
but when I slow my shutter down more light comes in so that means I need a
darker ND filter so instead of an nd8 I need something like a nd 16 or even a 32
and a 64 and also I need to be aware that the Sun is rising so it's
constantly getting brighter so because of that I need to use a darker
and ND filter so the combination of the Sun rising and it getting brighter and
the fact that I wanted to slow the shutter down even more I'm gonna have to
use a much darker ND filter alright so what I noticed is the Sun is rising
really fast so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna put an ND 64 and that way we can
really slow down the shutter and get a nice silky smooth look so I'm gonna do
that right now
so after sunrise it gets bright very quickly because the sunrise is so fast
so I had to use an ND 64 filter because this was the darkest ND filter that I
had stopping down six stops which means it makes it much darker so I can
properly expose for the brightness around me so I wanted to use as slow as
shutter as possible so I stopped it down to two seconds and this was a slowest
shutter I could use while still properly exposing the image with the Osmo pocket
and as you can see because the shutter speed is slower at two seconds the ocean
is much smoother if I had gone down to four seconds or even like seven or eight
seconds that ocean would have looked completely like a lake completely smooth
unfortunately this ND filter was only a 64 so I only could stop it down for two
seconds now if I had taken this picture earlier I could have used in a much
slower shutter allowing more light to come in because it was darker outside
and then I would have had a totally smooth looking ocean so if you want that
nice smooth glassy look with the ocean or with the clouds it's good to use an
ND filter like a 32 or 64 or sometimes even higher depending on what time of
the day that you shoot now remember the faster the water moves the slower the
shutter needs to be to make it have that smooth look but later in this video I'm
gonna show you how I went to South Beach where the waves were moving so fast but
because my shutter was so slow I was able to get a nice smooth glassy look
that couldn't have been done without an ND filter I do have to say these are
super easy to put in and out this little material inside
it's almost like a spongy material but it's also very firm and it's easy to put
these filters in and out and the magnetic strip makes it really quick to
put it on the Osmo pocket so I gotta say for convenience and quickness
this is really great alright so using these ND filters i have the ND 64 on
right now it works great for photography for getting that nice silky smooth look
but for video it's still too dark so because of the 180 degree rule basically
you always want the shutter speed to be double whatever your frame rate is so
I'm shooting at 24 frames per second therefore I want my shutter speed to be
one fiftieth of a second to get that nice cinematic look alright that's the
best way you don't want any choppy footage and you don't want the shutter
to be too slow so it always should be double whatever the frame rate is
alright guys so the Sun just rose and I put in an ND 16 filter on the Osmo
pocket and it's just looking really really good right now so I'm gonna share
with you what's on my screen over here with the nd 16 filter as you can see
it's really blown out right now and back here and with the NV 16 filter on you're
able to film with a 180 rule it doubled my shutter speed at 1/50th of second and
it's the perfect exposure so having that ND filter really comes in handy even
early in the morning at sunrise right now having that nd 16 filter is really
nice so the nd 4 8 and 16 are really for early in the morning and then once the
Sun rises you can use the 32 in the 64 now I'm talking about video you can use
the 32 and the 64 for photo anytime especially with water because the 32 and
the 64 will make that water nice and smooth by the way I think I have a guest
over here hey little fella play my finger by my
finger all right so now that the Sun is really nice and it's risen and I have
the nd 16 filter I'm gonna do a bunch of filming around here and show you what I
get
so after I was done shooting I gathered my stuff up and then I headed to South
Beach later that afternoon when I get to South
Beach the Sun was going down I put a nd 64 polarizer filter on and I slowed it
down to one second because if I slowed down any longer than that it would be
too dark but the shutter was still slow enough that I got that nice smooth look
and as you can see because I put my Osmel pocket on a tripod the sand remain
perfectly sharp because it was still but the waves were moving and depending on
how fast the waves move you're gonna get a different look so they move super fast
you're gonna see some of the waves but if they moved a lot slower it's gonna be
much smoother and softer so based on how fast the waves move and how slow my
shutter is will produce that silky smooth look remember in general the
slower the shutter the more smooth is gonna look and the faster the shutter
the more everything's gonna be in focus of course how fast the waves move also
factored into that but I became inspired from this shoot to return back to the
city skyline where I was the previous morning and then slow my shutter down to
8 seconds with the nd 64 filter on and because the shutter was open for 8
seconds it slowed down all the waves going across the ocean to make it look
more like a lake all of these images are JPEGs you could also shoot in RAW if you
want to DNG RAW and then edit them that I just shot in JPEG to show you what it
looks like right out of camera just from using a slow shutter and an ND filter or
ND polarizer filter and this was the resulting image the last thing I want to
show you is how to take a photo of cars driving by so I was in South Beach the
Sun was going down it wasn't dark just yet it looks dark right here because I
put a nd 16 filter on so it looks like it's nighttime even though it wasn't and
I set my Cosmo pocket on a tripod and then I took this photo and
notice I set it up for six seconds so it's six second shutter will make
everything go super slow by and you're gonna get those nice lights as you can
see right now the yellow the red and sometimes the white lights from the car
all show up because they're moving at such a fast pace and I have the shutter
set to 6 seconds and also because I have a slow shutter the car the building and
everything else is properly exposed but I couldn't have done it without an ND
filter so I took multiple photos I set it up in fpv mode I like fpv mode
because you have full control I put it on timer so the Osmo pocket wouldn't
wiggle alright you want to put it on timer so it's gonna stay perfectly still
on the tripod any movement will cause the image to be blurry and the only
thing we want blurry is the lights now this fan pulled up and he pulled up the
right moment where that tail light was just in front of the car and as you can
see that red line just goes right across the image right at the center of the car
now you have all these other lights I liked them I saw that this name of this
place was Avalon but I wanted to change it since I was doing a video about polar
Pro filters I wanted to change that name so because they had these two photos I
took them together and I combined them in Photoshop and I changed Avalon to
polar Pro and then I just cropped in on an image I made it a little brighter and
this is the final image that you have now with cars it depends on how long
that light is in front of you you can see it was stopped right in front of the
car for a little bit that's why it's brightest right near the passenger
window of the car and the lines are much thinner and in unison as it moved by so
you got to experiment with that see what you like and sometimes you have to
combine a couple photos or you can take multiple photos and pick out the best
one alright guys we found this video helpful don't forget to press that like
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