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Handling stuck filters - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photography Foundations: Specialty Lenses
Handling stuck filters
If you stack multiple filters on your lenses, there's inevitably going to come a day when you can't get your stacked filters apart. This is especially true if you have a lens that requires very large filters with threads so tiny it's hard to screw filters together so that they're perfectly straight, especially if the filters are very large. If you keep UV or Skylight filters on all of your lenses, then anytime you add a lens, you'll be stacking filters. Now, getting them apart can be tricky. First, you need to unscrew the entire stack of filters. I have two filters here. I've got an ND filter and then I put a Variable ND filter on top of it to create this stack. When I went to unscrew the variable ND filter, the whole thing came off, and now I'm trying and trying and trying to get them undone, and I can't. Now, lots of people have lots of ideas about how to get stuck filters apart. Some people say that you should set one side on an ice pack because the cold will make that side…
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What filters are for2m 37s
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Shopping for filters3m 55s
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Understanding neutral density filters4m 53s
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Applying neutral density filters3m 55s
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Polarizing filters3m 4s
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Some shooting tips for working with a polarizing filter2m 32s
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Using infrared filters9m 15s
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Processing the infrared image6m 7s
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Handling stuck filters3m 1s
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