If you don't have a set already, I can heartily recommend:
1. a circular polarizer, and
2. a set of ND (neutral density) filters.
I got seriously into the hobby about the time my daughter was born, but started drifting away as I found that I was going on vacations and doing day trips not to experience the thing, but to take pictures of it. Finally decided that I'd do an occasional foray (and I'll do snapshots with my phone), but I generally leave my camera home so I can live the moments, not just record them.
I do have both, and generally keep a polarizer on all my lenses without even thinking about it.
Because I do macrophotography, it's a little less likely to take over my vacations. Also, I have learned recently that it's a good thing to have some good photos of memorable moments, as I had more for my Dad's memorial than I was expecting. It was lovely to wander down memory lanes through the photo folders.
One thing that I found that was helpful to split the difference was a special case and filters that my beloved bought for me for Christmas one year. At that point, I had an iPhone Pro Plus 12. The case came with a little clip-on faux DSLR handle, a circular polarizer, and 3 ND filters IIRC. The filters clipped onto the case over the camera lenses in a bayonet fashion. It worked a treat, gave me much more creative control over what I was shooting, and wasn't nearly as bulky as my DSLR kit was at that point.
At that point, I was still running a Canon EOS-based body, and was routinely lugging 5-10 lenses. Knocking that back to a slightly specialized case and a small wallet with 4 filters in it made my life a LOT easier.
Unfortunately, I have no idea where they ended out or I'd send a link to the company for general interest. I did a quick search, and there are at least a couple of companies that make something similar these days. The only drawback is that the filters generally aren't stackable the way they would be on a regular DSLR lens.
That would be fun. I have a couple sets of the clip-on lenses for a cell phone. Haven't played with them in a couple of phones, so I don't know how well they'd work with my phone which has two lenses (I never have the latest and greatest phone).
For me, I usually at least keep a UV filter on as the least expensive option. It's there more to protect the front of the lens than to provide any actual UV protection.
Thinking back, I'd started with a Canon EOS DSLR body primarily because I had what ended out being pretty much a unicorn - Canon, for a short while, made an SLR that took APS film instead of 35 mm, and I was young enough to think APS was the wave of the future. It actually took advantage of a lot of things that APS could do, but most cameras didn't allow. Things like swapping film cartridges mid-roll: you could drop in a roll of ASA 400, shoot half of it inside, move outside, and rewind the ASA 400. You could then replace it with a roll of ASA 100 to shoot in the bright light outside, after which you could reverse the process, and the camera would find the first un-exposed frame on the ASA 400 roll and fast-forward to it.
A cool format, but what I didn't realize at the time was that most of the cool features came at the expense of a significantly smaller frame size on the film, which limited the amount that pictures could be enlarged before looking blurry.
Beautiful pictures. I used to do good close-in photos when I had a good 35mm camera, but now only using a simple digital camera - nothing fancy. Still works for most shots.
If you don't have a set already, I can heartily recommend:
1. a circular polarizer, and
2. a set of ND (neutral density) filters.
I got seriously into the hobby about the time my daughter was born, but started drifting away as I found that I was going on vacations and doing day trips not to experience the thing, but to take pictures of it. Finally decided that I'd do an occasional foray (and I'll do snapshots with my phone), but I generally leave my camera home so I can live the moments, not just record them.
I do have both, and generally keep a polarizer on all my lenses without even thinking about it.
Because I do macrophotography, it's a little less likely to take over my vacations. Also, I have learned recently that it's a good thing to have some good photos of memorable moments, as I had more for my Dad's memorial than I was expecting. It was lovely to wander down memory lanes through the photo folders.
One thing that I found that was helpful to split the difference was a special case and filters that my beloved bought for me for Christmas one year. At that point, I had an iPhone Pro Plus 12. The case came with a little clip-on faux DSLR handle, a circular polarizer, and 3 ND filters IIRC. The filters clipped onto the case over the camera lenses in a bayonet fashion. It worked a treat, gave me much more creative control over what I was shooting, and wasn't nearly as bulky as my DSLR kit was at that point.
At that point, I was still running a Canon EOS-based body, and was routinely lugging 5-10 lenses. Knocking that back to a slightly specialized case and a small wallet with 4 filters in it made my life a LOT easier.
Unfortunately, I have no idea where they ended out or I'd send a link to the company for general interest. I did a quick search, and there are at least a couple of companies that make something similar these days. The only drawback is that the filters generally aren't stackable the way they would be on a regular DSLR lens.
That would be fun. I have a couple sets of the clip-on lenses for a cell phone. Haven't played with them in a couple of phones, so I don't know how well they'd work with my phone which has two lenses (I never have the latest and greatest phone).
For me, I usually at least keep a UV filter on as the least expensive option. It's there more to protect the front of the lens than to provide any actual UV protection.
Thinking back, I'd started with a Canon EOS DSLR body primarily because I had what ended out being pretty much a unicorn - Canon, for a short while, made an SLR that took APS film instead of 35 mm, and I was young enough to think APS was the wave of the future. It actually took advantage of a lot of things that APS could do, but most cameras didn't allow. Things like swapping film cartridges mid-roll: you could drop in a roll of ASA 400, shoot half of it inside, move outside, and rewind the ASA 400. You could then replace it with a roll of ASA 100 to shoot in the bright light outside, after which you could reverse the process, and the camera would find the first un-exposed frame on the ASA 400 roll and fast-forward to it.
A cool format, but what I didn't realize at the time was that most of the cool features came at the expense of a significantly smaller frame size on the film, which limited the amount that pictures could be enlarged before looking blurry.
Beautiful pictures. I used to do good close-in photos when I had a good 35mm camera, but now only using a simple digital camera - nothing fancy. Still works for most shots.