I'm thinking about getting a good quality (probably B+W) ND filter. I don't intend to use it too often, and they are rather expensive, so I want to buy only one. A 6-stop filter will slow the shutter speed by a factor 64. This is probably good for waterfalls and flowing water, where exposures of order of 10 s are good enough. A 10-stop filter gives a 1000-fold shutter speed slow-down and might be useful if I wanted to take a picture of a street in bright daylight and blur people away, by using an exposure of 5 or 10 minutes. Hence, they have different applications.
As I said, I want to buy only one. Which one would you recommend? Which one would be more flexible and would give me more opportunities for interesting photos apart from the examples above?
As I said, I want to buy only one. Which one would you recommend? Which one would be more flexible and would give me more opportunities for interesting photos apart from the examples above?