Black and White Landscape Tips

John Mc

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I've been Looking about for Tips on B&W Landscape tips. and there's basically a Tonne out there on the Internet, I Don't like asking for Tip's, I like to experiment, but im really more curious about information on Filters for Black and white photography and when to use the(morning/afternoon/evening) I'm talking more along the lines of Red/orange filters. I know they darken the sky, make clouds more prominent etc., but can anyone shed a little bit of light on them for me ?

You'd be helping me alot, some of the info is confusing me a tad

John
 
On the field, Im not too keen on adding filters in photoshop.

Thanks for the confirmation aswell.
 
The most common filters for B&W photography are yellow, orange and red which are used mostly to add contrast and to skies particularly increasing in effect from yellow to red, with red giving the most dramatic effect.

It helps to remember that a filter absorbs light of it's own colour and will therefore lighten that colour, so an orange filter can be used to lighten stonework, while a green filter will lighten foliage.

Don't forget these filters have a filter factor (or co-efficient if you want to be posh) - the darker the filter, the more you'll need to increase exposure to compensate for the light loss. Modern TTL systems make all the adjustments for you, but if using older non - metered cameras you'll need to manually add the filter factor compensation to the indicated exposure.

The filter factor is usually printed on the side of the filter mount eg. X1 /X1.5/ X2/ X4 etc..

Don't get confused about these numbers - they don't refer to actual stops - they mean a multiplication factor for the overall indicated exposure...

X1 would mean no exposure increase (a UV filter perhaps)

X1.5 - a half stop increase.

X2 - one whole stop increase.

X4 - 2 whole stops increase.


Hope that helps?
 
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