Green, did a great job lightening the grass in wooden cross scene. It gave better separation between the grass and the trees. In my opinion, it's the best one for that scene. Subtle use of filters is the key.

For those who don't know. Yellow filter, half a stop to a stop extra light, Orange, 2 stops, red, 3 stops of light. Blues are typically 2-3 stops, and greens are 2. :)

I have been a film photographer for over 40 years. The use of filters can enhance the look of a photograph but my advice is to use them sparingly and thoughtfully . A yellow green filter is often used to give the panchromatic film a more literal look. Orange can be useful but it can also flatten the contrast believe it or not. This is dependent on the subject and the lighting of course. Red is an extreme filter and most landscape photographers seldom use it as the effect could often become more of a cliche. The most useful of all filters so far as landscape photography is concerned is the Wratten 12 filter, deep yellow, or the minus blue in the old language. In BW photography each subject has to be evaluated on its own merit for the use of filters. Someone mentioned the use of blue filter for portraits. This is more to emulate the true Orthochromatic films of yesteryears and it filters the red out. The effect can be striking on the photographs of female form with red hair, pale skins and freckles. Thank for your presentation. I forgot to mention that the blue filter can also have a dramatic effect on landscape photographs taken in mist or fog as it accentuates the effect. The exposure is tricky but the end result is well worth the effort.

Great presentation!! Always wanted to know what the filters did on b&w film. Your examples were very helpful. Thanks man! 👍

This came along at the right time. I actually liked the yellow best because the fore ground/foliage looked better to my eye. I will do both red and yellow filter on my next few shots. Thank you. The info and timing were perfect! Good, clear, concise presentation, and fun to watch.

Perfect and super useful video! I love the red filter, thanks again!

Excellent examples. I thought the cross and the portraites really showed the differences the most. Your dog is camera shy and did not want its picture taken (smile). Thanks for a great visual.

A great educational video. Now I am excited to get out and experiment with what I have. Thanks for the inspiration.

Answered my question about red filters in portrait photography! Thanks!

New sub. Thanks for this comparison video. I just bought a Pentax 645 to primarily shoot B/W, and I do my own developing. I look forward to watching more of your videos 👍👍👍👍👌👌👌👌

Love how rich the contrast is when using the red filter!

Always been a fan of red for landscapes. Great vid as always cheers

Nice. To the point. Top marks!

0 I love how some of the filters get more subsurface scattering on your skin It looks really nice and also interesting I love how you can pick how much subsurface scattering you want

Exciting and inspiring. Red=Good, Yellow=Better, Green=Udders on a Bull. Got it mate :)

I like the portrait with the red filter 🤣! I will test it by myself...

Green has a use as well as blue but both are very niche. Green works in a rainforest. Still not sure where blue comes in though. But I agree about red and yellow being best use for those situations. I really like the red filter personally. But I shoot a lot of landscapes with sky.

Good survey. Looking at a color wheel will help a lot by showing which colors will be darkened and which won't; red darkens cyan, green darkens magenta, blue darkens yellow -- and vice versa. Some folks like green for some portraits, depending on skin tones of course, knowing the wheel will let you evaluate a scene for what filters might help. A suggestion: you already appear to have a Red 25. Your green might be close enough to a 58. If you can find a blue 47 (Wratten numbers), you can give trichromes a try, which are fun...

Thanks man. Very useful

Thanx for this, only recently bought cheaply Cokin filter set and am experimenting...some help ta

Really useful video!

Good job. Thanks

I prefer the the yellow filter inthe seconds series. It darks the blue sky, but the greens in the foreground are are pretty bright. It comes nearest to my sean brightness. The contrast of the picture is round.

Green is great for foliage shots and that’s about it. Also all these filter provide different results depending on what angle to the sun you are!

When I shoot black & white landscapes with my film cameras, I sometimes use yellow, orange, or red filters. On my 35mm cameras, I use round glass Tiffen filters. On my medium format cameras, I use rectangular plastic resin Cokin filters. Your video as inspired me to use my filters more often.

Gravestone Pictures: 3:58 no filter 4:10 yellow 4:20 green 4:30 red Cross pictures: 4:48 no 4:59 yellow 5:03 green 5:07 red

this inspired me to pop on an orange today!

Yellow is always a good balance and worth keeping on the lens for black and white photography

That second scene really demonstrates the effect. I never considered them on faces. I've done a similar test, but with a red filter I needed to add a stop of light. Ansel Adams took one of his first very successful landscapes of Yosemite after climbing for a day and he only had two shots left (large format, 4x5 I think). He took the first with no filter. At the last moment, he decided to take the same shot with a red filter. The first shot was nothing special. The second shot became iconic and showed the amazing range of grays he could get. On a separate note, I noticed some vignetting on the second scene. Is that normal on that Yashica? I din't remember that on my Yashica D.

Excellent 💎

I used to shoot weddings with one of those cameras back in the 90’s 😊

It’s interesting that using monochrome filters also affects image acutance by reducing the effects of wavelengths other than that passed by the filter. This lens characteristic is greatest with green since that was likely the wavelength used to compute the design, with corrections reducing the out of focus image consisting of longer and shorter wavelengths. Meh, the effect is so small as to be hard to detect. The green filter images seen to have received less exposure. Foliage should render lighter than the eye sees it. This is an informative video. A class on filters. Time well spent.

If you are using B&W film, pushing it can give some really good results through the darkroom.

Would be nice to have access to these pictures, as the green landscape looked good to me

Great help 👍🏻

Great! Based on this film photography with different colour filters, did you test same film simulation R,G,B, on Fujifilm camera? Will be at same result for B&W photography?

Thank you,I just need to understand this.

This is the best explanation of this I've heard

The framing of the images are very nice

thanks!

What a wonderful comparison. I knew it, the red filter wins. Just subscrbed Buddy!👍👍

A selectable green filter was sometimes used in the old days when using colour films on cameras specifically optimised for B&W film ie., not colour coated I guess, I have one, a Coronet Cub which utilises 828 film extinct in 1959 I think, luckily it is the same width as 35mm, so I make my own backing paper using cut down 120 backing paper and 35mm film in the darkroom/bathroom, very annoying and labour intensive. I haven't tried one yet because if it didn't work out I would be tempted to jump up and down on the camera, and I may hurt myself ;-))

Nice Video!

Love the green filter pics, lol... hate the yellow one, can’t see the difference. The red’s too dark for me. Thanks for the video!

What surprised me was the green filter. It darkened the trees and grass meanwhile yellow filter increased their brightness,which made me wonder, whether the leaf green is made up more of yellow than green itsel. Can Anyone help me to understand better?

The green is in between red and yellow it did not darken your grass as much but it did help to seperae the layers in your sky plus darken it

You might have had better results if you had realized that your green filter is NOT a green filter. It is a yellow-green filter, but you only see the green unless you are accustomed to looking at filters. If you look at your video at the 8:20 mark, you will be able to see both colors present, but you must look hard. The best effect of the yellow-green filters (Wratten #11 and #13) is to separate various tones of red. Otherwise it serves largely the same purpose as the yellow (Wratten #8) filter.

... and getting to the point, the topic starts at 4:54

When you set the camera ready to take each photo, you remind me of James May for some reason😂😂😂.

I laughed every single time he said "cock". I'm 47 years of age.

What would be a good filter for street photography? Or is it all dependant on the scene, so ie swap filters as per requirement?

Hi, have you compensated for exposure with each filter? Thanks!

I'm a little puzzled. To me the Green actually darkened the grass in the cross photos, yet others are saying it lightened the grass? I've also noticed that there seems to be quite a bit of Vignetting in your pics and yet we don't see a lens hood, so could it be the filters or the camera itself causing that?

Blue to enhance skin tones

Is blue something to consider?

Found out recently that blue is great for portraits... atypical comment though!

Oczywiście mowa tu o filmie PANCHROMATYCZNYM. Zielony filtr użyteczny jest przy wieczornym/ciepłym (czerwonym słońcu) świetle.

why your lens is vignetting heavily, my Yashica 124g doesn't do that?

What about the orange filter

You basically just did a trichrome you should try from the results

I feel like yellow is mostly just a temperature shift.

Quick question about the video. Would anything be different if the shots were taken at night or with a flash? I'd appreciate it if anyone has some feedback. Thanks very much.

It depends on whether your scanning film or working in the darkroom. If your working in a darkroom, poor exposures are not even worth the time trying to work with.

You do not mention the "Filter Factor" which is achieved in your case by measuring each filter through a spot meter, +1, +2, +3 etc..

Green is good for nothing? But what if (for example) we wanna make black and white photo of little green man in front of green bushes? The answer is, that with no filter it would turn out mud... but if you use green filter, it will differ each shade of green and enhance this photo. Such is purpose of green filter.

you should learn the color teory ,before review the color lens....go for oposite color "green", all the red will get darker, your face have slightly blood's red color , so " green filter " it's will bring out the texture on your face... if you want blue darker, yellow brighter or grass brighter [grass = 50% blue+ 50% yellow], so you can use green filter and so on.

Self portrait 🟢🙂 🔴🙁 ⚪😐 🟡🙂

are you irish?

Lmao "green, good for nothing"!

It was not really a successful experiment , please do more research