What is better a filter or the real photo captured by the camera on auto focus ?

Hubby and I like to eat our evening meal outside on the

verandah overlooking the little lake and pier ,

at our holiday accomodation.

This is the same time that the native birds come

into feed on the Grevilleas .

Always in search of the best possible photo I have

the camera ready and more often then not, will abandon

my meal and go off taking photos.

We stayed out a bit later the other night and I was

able to play with the changing light of dusk

My favourite shot is this one below.

No filter added. This was how my auto-focus camera captured the light.

I decided to trial some filters and the

following are the resulting photos.

https://wpcomwidgets.com/render/

I like them all but my favourite is the original

because it was a gift from my camera to me.