I have always been passionate about documenting my bike trips. My first excursion was recorded with a small Canon point-and-shoot camera equipped with a makeshift windshield and a dusty lens. Despite this, I still loved the footage it produced.
Bike trips make for some great stories, and any camera should be able to capture them. But if you're like me, you want to do everything within your budget to ensure your footage looks precisely as you wish. This could be done by improving your eye for good composition, investing in a course to teach you how to edit photos or videos, or supplementing your camera and lens with tools to enhance the output.
My answer to this simple enhancement: lens filters. A quality filter gives a creative angle that's otherwise difficult to obtain from a camera.
Moment sent me 4 different filters to test out for my latest bike-packing trip across Baja California: the signature 2-5 stop VND, Gold CineStreak, Cross-Polarization (CPL), and the 10% CineBloom Diffusion.
Although I was excited to use each of these, traveling by bike is very demanding, let alone a journey through one of the driest places I've ever been. Hence, I quickly discovered that I preferred to stick to my two favorites and focused on swapping those around whenever I could.