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I'd recommend picking up hard grads and at some point if you feel like splurging for more expensive filters, you may also want to consider the Singh-Ray reverse ND grads, i find them real useful when you have alpen glow on mountain peaks.
I'd also recommend getting a one stop hard grad (1,2,3 stops are all useful). The 1 stop is very useful for mountain reflections. I used to use mainly the 2 and 3 stop ND grads until I started getting feedback on the FM Forum that quite often my reflection shots have the foreground reflection lighter then the mountain peaks and sky. QUite often when you have a colorful sky or alpen glow, there is only about 1 1/2 stop difference between the peaks/sky and the reflection in a lake. By using a 2 stop filter you often end up with the reflection lighter then the peaks/sky.
I'm actually thinking of picking up a 1 stop reverse ND grad, bcoz, I end up using my 2 stop reverse ND grad to hold back the glow in the horizon, when a 1 stop would be better for the reflection.
You can see an example of using a 1 stop grad in this kind of situation in my current posting at the following link:
http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/753074
I ended up using the 2 stop reverse ND grad for some of my photos, which did a better job of holding back the glow in the horizon, but ended up having the reflection lighter then necessary.
I don't like doing a lot of post processing and despite getting LR books a couple of months back, I'm still using DPP for processing. I prefer to try and get things right in the camera then spending a lot of time tweaking in post-processing (which is somewhat limited in DPP anyways).
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