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Summary: In black and white photography, color filters help the photographer to express what he is trying to get across without having to make changes in the darkroom. Find out how to use photography color filters with help from a photographer in this free video on photography tips and color filters.
Kight Haberer has a degree in photography from the University of North Texas. He is the owner of Action Shooters Photography, which is based out of Fort Worth, Texas.read more
"Hi this is Kight from AS Photographer and we're going to talk about the effects of color lens, color filter in black and white photography. Color filters in black and white photography will help you express what you as the artist are trying to get across. When you're shooting a black and white photography some of the things that'll happen for instance will be let's say the white sky. You've got great tone and range of tone in all of your subject matter from shadows to light then in the sky it's just a white sky and you want to get, let's say you're sky darker. You can buy a color filter to put on the camera to darken that sky so that you don' have to do it in the darkroom, you don't have to color it you don't have to dodge and burn in certain places to get the photograph to look like you want, you can do it actually in the camera when you shoot. And it really is just a matter of what you as the artist want to portray. So let's say you're shooting an apple tree and you want to let's say darken the red apples and lighten the green leaves. You would use a green filter for that. A green filter will basically stop greens from coming to your film which is whatever color the filter is, that's what color it resists as the light is coming through. So you put a green filter on there then it's going to resist the greens so the greens are going to be a light color and the reds will be a darker color than the greens. So the range of filters that you have to use with black and white photography are well of course it's limited because there's only a certain amount of colors but the options and what you get are limitless. You can apply them however you want, you can stack filters, you can change colors, it's really an experiment up to you and that's the best way to find out what it is you want to do is to experiment with the different colors filters for your black and white photography depending on what you want to get and what kind of a result you're looking for as the photographer."
eHow Article: Effect of Color Filters on Black & White Photography
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