We always seem to screw up the perfect time to go out and do some nighttime photography. Well, while I was munching on my granola for breakfast yesterday I got to thinking... Hmmm, the Paint Mine outside of Colorado Springs would be cool to shoot at night. Tonight is a full moon and mostly clear. Mostly. Sounded good to us. Time to charge the batteries and clean off the filters. Since we are now interested in serious Neutral Density Photography, we packed our Variable Neutral Density filters and step down rings in the bag and headed out. We took a few test shots and then setup our tripods, attached our ND Filters and found that they really SUCK. Big time. We couldn't get the filters to stop all the way down. I won't go into all of the details about ND Filters but they basically allow you to stop down the light entering the camera lens without affecting color. Why would you do this you ask? Nice blurs on waterfalls, creamy ocean...