I'm currently interested mostly in nature shots, landscape shots to be specific. And of course, I always have the problem (since I really have no filters at the moment) where I can't get the sky and ground evenly exposed. Either the ground is pitch black with the sky exposed correctly, or the ground is exposed correctly and the sky is completely white. There's some middle ground, of course, but nothing that makes me particularly happy.

It seems what I need are graduated neutral density filters. Course, finances aren't the best, so I wanted to ask if anyone had any suggestions on what I should get. Is Cokin what I should be looking at? Or is there something good, but relatively cheap, that I should be looking for instead?

Thanks.

-Melen