Things You'll Need:
- Camera Bags
- Camera Filters
- Camera Polarizer Filters
- Cameras
- Film
- Cameras
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Step 1
Study the scene you wish to photograph. Look for any extreme contrast in light. In a sunset or sunrise, the foreground is darker than the sky.
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Step 2
Use a graduated filter to compensate for these differences in contrast. A graduated filter is half clear glass and half neutral or a color. It allows the foreground to absorb more light and make the contrast between the sky and foreground less extreme.
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Step 3
Use a polarizer to prevent glare from the surface of water or from bright sunlight. A polarizer will deepen the blue of your sky.
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Step 4
Create richer colors or a mood with an enhancing filter. Fall colors such as red, orange and yellow will really snap with color when you use an enhancing filter.
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Step 5
Try a blue or cooling filter such as the 80A or a FL-D to counter the greenish hue your photograph may have when shooting under tungsten or fluorescent lights. A good place to try this filter is in basketball gymnasiums, where photos can take on a green tint.
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Step 6
Use a warming filter such as 81B when taking pictures on an overcast day or in open shade. It will add a golden glow such as the late afternoon sun emits to your photograph.
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Step 7
Play with some of the specialty filters such as the soft focus for portraits or a filter to give the lights of a city a "star" effect.
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Step 8
Choose the filter to fit the lens you wish to use or use an adapter ring to fit filters to various lenses.
