Werner Or Anyone Else Von Niall!

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Hi Niall,



Ferdinand is pulling your leg! The red filter does not do anything useful for color pictures - everything will be tinted red...

In B&W, the red filter is used:

-) for infrared film (like Kodak HIE) to shut out visible light and only let pass the red end of the spectrum - giving the typical ghostly IR-pics, with glowing white foliage ('Wood effect') and dark skies.

-) for regular B&W film: to boost contrast and darken the sky, to achieve a kind of 'moonlight' effect, to get very artificial looking pictures, kind graphic looking.

I don't find it very useful for landscape work, as a red filter not only darkens blue (sky) but also green (foliage), which will give very bad shadow definition. I personally don't like the red filter at all, it might be useful for shooting (modern) architecture, giving kind of abstract, artificial, graphic results.

For me, the most useful filter for landscape, but also for portraits & general photography is the yellow-green filter: it will darken the blue sky slightly, giving better definition to clouds, and it will slightly lighten foliage, and make it look better defined; the most extreme filter I use is the orange one, which is kinda half way between yellow and red - higher contrast, but not too artificial looking...



Roman
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