My name is Kevin Tadej and I am a landscape photographer, specializing in long exposure photography.
I frequently exhibit my work in photo festivals in France and am an active instructor at Worldway Photo (Paris), a travel agency dedicated to photography. I have a great passion for merging photography with painting, in particular watercolor painting like my series Mer Nature. To do this, I need specific material and I will now tell you more about my techniques.
To be able to create my images, I need filters and a filter-holder system. Some years ago I started with resin filters made by Cokin®, the original creator of photographic filters in the 1970s. Such filters gave me the ability to make good landscapes, I was particularly able to use GND8 filters to darken my skies. However, I quickly faced different issues with these resin filters. Firstly, the resin filters stored in my very confined photo bag tend to bend and get distorted. Secondly, being an expert of long exposure in a seaside environment, I am facing extreme weather conditions such as strong wind and above all sand which is the bugbear of every seascape photographer. And indeed, wind and sand progressively scratched my resin filters and in no time damaging them. Lastly, stacking resin filters can produce a color difference and create a magenta or blue color shift.