I spend a lot of evenings at my local communty park trying to catch sunsets + flowers in the same shot. But I've struggled with proper exposure: either the sunset is perfectly captured and the flowers are reduced to black silhouettes, or the flowers are properly exposed and sky ends up way too bright.

This graduated filter helps solve this problem, allowing me to get a better balance between the two halves of my photos: I put the dark half of the filter on top, and the clear part on the bottom, with the border placed on the horizon. This reduces the contrast just a bit between the halves, and allows me to squeeze out a bit more detail from my flowers without washing out the sky.

But know that this has plenty of other uses that don't require using the horizon as your guide. Any photo where there is a clear line between the dark and light halves of your photo could potentially benefit from the filter.

I've become a fan of K&F filters in general. They are reasonably priced, with good build quality, and a nice "universal" case that can securely hold small and large filters.

This filter won't go with me everywhere, but it has plenty of uses and was worth adding it to my collection.