Re: What filter when shooting B&W portraits with Kodak 3200?

[Herschel Mair <herschelmair@xxxxxxxxx>]

 Deep yellow is good for skin tones outdoors especially in open shade, on the tighly cropped face shots but if you're shooting indoors, under tungsten lights skin tones can look a little ghostly pale when seen in context of the surroundings. Blue items like bride's maid's dresses etc. are darkened out of proportion.

 

I suggest that if you're already shooting in a warmly lit environment that you leave out the filters altogether. It will also save you about a stop in light so you can use a faster shutter speed, get less blur and generally better looking images.

 

 

Herschel

 

Gregory Fraser <Gregory.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

As far as I know its called deep yellow.

Greg

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students
Sent: Wed Nov 30 14:27:17 2005
Subject: Re: What filter when shooting B&W portraits with Kodak 3200?

> I used to use a deep yellow filter with bw film. It
> gave a delicate look to human flesh that I liked.
> However, if you're shooting at 3200 the grain will
> probably counteract any delicacy.

Gregory,

Thanks for reponding to my message. DO you know what
the yellow filter is called ? This week I am going to
experiment with it. I very curious to see how its
going to look with 3200 speed film.

Thanks,
srinivasa regeti

Herschel Mair
Head of the Department of Photography,

Higher College of Technology
Muscat
Sultanate of Oman

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