Tiffen 5 Magenta Hard-Edge Graduated Filter, 4 x 5.65 Inches, Horizontal Orientation | 4565CGM5HH
Landscape and nature photographers often run into a stubborn color imbalance between sky and foreground ? especially at sunrise or sunset. The sky reads noticeably cooler than the earth below it. A conventional neutral-density graduated filter handles the exposure difference, but it can’t fix that lingering magenta hue in the highlights. That’s exactly where the Tiffen 5 Magenta Hard-Edge Graduated Filter steps in. It’s purpose-built for bringing a natural warmth back into skies that have gone too blue on you.
- This 4×5.65 inch cold-treated filter offers a magenta tint graduated from full density near the edge down to clear at the horizon line, letting you color-correct the sky without dirtying the foreground.
- The hard-edge transition is intentional ? it’s designed for scenes with a crisp, unmistakable horizon line, such as ocean sunsets or flat plains, where you want a decisive cutoff rather than a soft roll-off.
- Horizontal orientation means the gradient runs along the long side of the rectangular filter, which makes it a natural fit for most landscape compositions framed in landscape format with the square filter holder systems.
- Because the magenta density matches the #5 rating, you get a genuinely noticeable amount of color shift in the highlights, not a subtle tweak ? you’ll see the correction plainly in the final image or live view.




