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03/14/2003 11:55:36 AM · #1 |
This tip may not be all that useful for those of you who can shoot digital in a black and white mode, but for the rest of us...
If you sometimes have trouble visualizing what a scene would look like in B&W, pull the red filter out of your camera bag. (This is the one used in B&W photography to dramatically increase contrast -- blue skies come out virtually black.) Take the filter and hold it up to your eye and look at the scene/subject you want to shoot. Obviously it's still not B&W (go figure -- eveything's red!), but all the color has pretty much been simplified to shades of red allowing you to see the variations of tone a lot easier and to make the leap to a sense of what the shot would look like in B&W.
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03/14/2003 12:58:06 PM · #2 |
| Thanks for the tip Patella! I want to start shooting more B&W pictures. So when shooting B&W you should use a red filter? Is any old red filter good for this or does it need to be a special type of red filter? |
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03/14/2003 01:13:25 PM · #3 |
This tip is just a visualization thing -- any red filter will work. You're just using it to look through, not necessarily putting it on your camera.
As for using the red filter when you shoot B&W -- that's a preference/intent kind of thing. Maybe you don't want really dramatic skies -- so you shoot without any filter. Or maybe you want to use an orange filter for less dramatic skies, or a yellow filter for still less dramatic skies, or... Filter choice when shooting is not something I'm going to tell you to do. :-)
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