Wide open with ND filters

So you got a 1.4 (or perhaps an even wider aperture lens) and you use it mostly for low light. What about shooting in bright light? Shooting wide open under a bright sunny day will blow everything out. It wouldn't matter if you lowered your ISO down to 50 and sped your shutter speed up to 1/8000th sec. It will be bright, and no amount of raw processing will save your file. The solution, I'm sure others have covered, albeit briefly, is to get a neutral density filter. The above image was shot with the Nikon 50mm f/1.4G with a 3 stop Hoya ND filter. ND filters aren't that expensive and they are quite stackable.

Tripod huggers (landscape photogs) use ND filters to slow everything down a little more even with light still available at the end of the day.