During my trip to Florida last April, I had a lot of fun working with the H&Y magnetic filter system. The use of filters in landscape photography is very handy, giving you the opportunity to reduce the difference in brightness between the sky and the rest of the landscape.
The H&Y filter system uses a magnetic frame that attaches securely to the filter mount of your lens. As a universal filter mount for magnetic frame filters, this opens the door to a very wide array of H&Y and other filters. I used the H&Y 1.2 and 0.9 gradient neutral density (GND) rectangular filter as well as the brand’s circular polarizing filter.
To create beautiful images at low speed I used a tripod with a ball head.
Nikon Z 7 II, 24-120mm at 24mm. ISO 64, f/20, 3 seconds, H&Y S-GND 1.2 + ND64 CPL filter system plus a rectangular sunset filter in an H&Y magnetic frame.
Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge in Florida. This location is well worth a visit in the spring, especially for bird lovers. The area it is made up of strips of land jutting into the sea near Titusville.
Nikon Z9, 24-120mm at 31 mm, ISO 500, f/4, 5 seconds, H&Y S-GND 0.9 and ND64 CPL filter.
This photo was taken at Falling Creek Falls north of Lake City, Florida. It is not easy to find small waterfalls in Florida, as there is very little elevated terrain. I wanted to show the beauty of this stream with its colourful waterfall and white foam that forms on the surface on the water.
Nikon Z9, 24-120mm at 55 mm, ISO 1600, f/6.3 2.5 seconds. H&Y S-GND 0.9 and ND64 CPL filter.
For this image, I wanted to create another perspective of Falling Creek Falls, north of Lake City, Florida. I shot with the goal of showing the speed of the rapids.
Nikon Z7 2, 24-120mm at 48 mm, ISO 64, f/4, 3 seconds. H&Y S-GND 0.9 + ND64 CPL filter.
This image shows the dock that protrudes into the Atlantic Ocean at Sebastian Inlet State Park in Florida. You always have to be careful with people who move during your long exposure photography. To avoid subject blurring, I had to take a series of images to capture one successful photo.
Nikon Z7 2, 24-120mm at 24mm, ISO 64, f/16. 5 seconds. H&Y S-GND 1.2 + ND64 CPL filter.
Everglades National Park in Florida is a place where the landscape extends as far as the eye can see with marshes that seem to be endless. I wanted to show the beautiful clouds, so I used the circular polarizing filter to emphasize the contrast between the blue sky and the marsh vegetation.
Nikon Z9, 24-120mm to 27mm, f/7.1, 2 seconds at ISO 6400. H&Y S-GND 1.2 and ND64 CPL filter.
At Rainbow River State Park in Dunnellon, Florida, I thought I would find several waterfalls – alas, they were all dry this year because of the lack of rain, except for this small waterfall.
About the Author
Luc Simard lives in the greater Quebec region, he is strongly influenced by the beauty of nature. He is specializing in birds and landscape photography.
From the title I was expecting more detailed information about the magnetic filter system, not a series of photographs using different filters.
Hello,
Here is a link to see everything about the H&Y filters. https://hyfilters.ca/
In PHOTONews magazine – Automn 2021, Kristina Bogner wrote a nice article about these filters: https://www.photonews.ca/MV_Photo_News/Issues/autumn2021/
I wrote an interesting article about the H&Y filters in the issue #54 – November 2021 of PHOTONews FLASH. Maybe this will help: https://www.photonews.ca/index.php/take-your-creativity-to-the-next-level-with-hy-filters/
Thanks for your feedback.
Jacques Dumont
Publisher