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Some types of filters are indispensable for landscape photography.  Circular Polarisers, for example; there is no way to reproduce their effect wit...

There’s no reason that shooting in the dark should be any more difficult than daylight shooting – but as well as the aesthetic issues, there are some different technical and practical considerations to take into account. Here are my top 10 tips for shooting street photography at night:

Astrophotographer & Formatt Hitech Official Ambassador, Duncan Arnold shares his experiences photographing Comet C/2020 F3, better known a...

Formatt Hitech remains the only company who can produce genuinely bonded filters. This Firecrest multicoating technology, developed within our labo...

All serious landscape photographers use filters. Controlling and modifying the luminance of the sky is vitally important in landscape photog...

Travel photography benefits greatly from the use of filters. Filters can dramatically enhance skies, and long exposure techniques will help ...

Long exposure photography is a specialized type of photography that relies heavily on dark ND filters. Click to learn more about long exposu...

Advanced tips to get the most out of your Formatt Hitech filters. Preventing Light Leaks Light leaks are a common occurrence in l...

A basic overview of filters and how they're used in photography.   Filter Basics Filters are used to control and modify light enterin...

A filter holder system allows you to purchase just one set of filters that will fit all of your lenses. Additionally you can stack multipl...

UV haze. It's a problem that photographers face everyday. Haze reduces the overall contrast of an image and is almost always the first envir...

The effect that polarisers have on photography is almost magical. Bright glaring reflections on water magically disappear. Foliage becomes d...

Graduated NDs, or more simply ‘grads’, have the ND effect only on the top half of the filter, so that the bright sky can be balanced with th...

Neutral density (or ND) filters reduce the amount of light that passes through the lens. This gives the photographer more control over the s...