Soft Graduated ND16 (4 Stop) Square Filter Plus+

You can use one filter system across all your lenses.

Square filter systems are made up of a square filter, a filter holder and a filter adapter to attach it to your lenses. You can buy adapters rings that let you attached the square filter holder with different sizes of lenses. This means you can invest in a better quality neutral density or polarizing filter because you can use it across all lenses instead of buying multiple filters for each lens.

Anyone with a broad collection of lenses, landscape photographers and those who value quality over a minimalist camera bag.

Square filters can be much cheaper than circular filters if you use a broad range of lenses because you can use the one set of filters across all of provided you have the right filter adapters to connect your filter holder to the different sized lenses. Square filters are popular with landscape photographers too because you can, for example, adjust the height of a graduated ND filter in the filter holder to better suit the lighting conditions. Square filters are bulkier and slower to set up so aren’t to those who prefer a light kit and moving quickly.

There are three elements to a square filter system: the filter itself, the filter holder, and the filter adapter that connects to your lens.

You can use your square filter with different size lenses if you buy different sized filter adapters. These allow you to connect your filter holder to your lens. You then insert filters into the holder and you’re ready to shoot. Filter holders let you stack multiple filters so you can combine neutral density filters and polarizing filters.

No, Urth Square Filters have great colour neutrality.

There are a couple of reasons your images may show a slight colour cast when using an ND filter. Check your white balance settings. By restricting the light entering your camera, it may throw out your white balance settings. Manually adjust your white balance settings to reduce any colour cast.

Yes, Urth 100mm square filters are 2mm thick and are designed to work with third-party holders.

We recommend you use our square filters with a Urth square filter holder because they were meticulously designed to work with one another.

To perfectly balance exposure in your landscape photographs.

Graduated Neutral Density Filters have an ND coating on one half of the filter so that light is diminished across half your frame. This is so you can balance your exposure when there is a strong source of light coming from one side – like when you’re shooting in the forest, in the mountains or at sunset and sunrise. A Graduated ND Filter helps you balance the highlights and lowlights for more balanced exposure.

Landscape photographers and anyone wanting more detail in their landscape highlights and lowlights.

Graduated Neutral Density filters filter out light across a portion of the frame allowing you to better balance your exposure and capture more detail in the highlights and lowlights. Graduated and Reverse Graduated ND filters block light across half the frame – perfect for when the background is bright and foreground is light or vice versa. A Centre Graduated ND filter is made for sunsets and sunrise or when there is a bright light at the centre of the frame. Graduated ND filters will help you better balance your exposure when capturing landscapes.

A Graduated ND filters out a set amount of light from a portion of the frame.

Graduated Neutral Density filters filter out light across a portion of the frame allowing you to better balance your exposure and capture more detail in the highlights and lowlights. For example a Graduated ND8 blocks 3 f-stops of light across half your frame – perfect for when the background is bright and foreground is light or vice versa.

A Reverse Graduated ND Filter helps you balance sunrise and sunset landscape photographs.

A Reverse Graduated ND Filter starts with the darkening in the centre of the frame and it fades across the top half of the frame to cut brighter light at the horizon while still capturing the details of the sky for balanced exposure when shooting sunrises and sunsets. By effectively darkening the horizon line across your frame, it allows you to capture greater detail in the highlights near the horizon and in the lowlights in the top and bottom of your landscape images.

A Centre Graduated ND Filter helps you balance sunrise and sunset landscape photographs.

A Centre Graduated ND Filter has a narrow band of darkening across the centre of the frame for balanced exposure when shooting sunrises and sunsets. By effectively darkening the horizon line across your frame, it allows you to capture greater detail in the highlights and lowlights of your landscape images when the light source is close to the horizon.