How to Use Camera Color Filters

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is Kight with AS Photography, and today we're talking about color filters on a camera lens. Now, there's lots of different lenses, lots of different color filters, lots of different color filters that do lots of different things. There's polarizing filters. Those aren't color filters, but they will change the way that reflections go through glass and things like that. Change the way....the intensity of the sky. Color filters can be used for a variety of different things. It's really up to the photographer and what kind of an image they want to achieve and what they're going for. This is an example of a color filter. This one is a 85B filter that is used when you're shooting with film that is rated for tungsten light, which is indoor light, and you are shooting outside, so there's going to be a very, very, very blue cast to your film, because the light outside has a lot more blue in it than the light inside. So when you put this filter on, it's kind of an orange colored filter, and it takes the blue and tones it down a bit so that you've corrected your color film. So if you find yourself with a camera full of film, and it's for use in indoors and then you go outdoors, to correct for the over blue, you can put this filter on and it will fix that tonal...fix that range in your camera so that you don't have to get pictures back and try to fix them in post, as you say, or in Photoshop or something like that. But that's just one example of the...using a filter on the front camera. Basically, they just screw right on to the front of the cameras. This is the wrong size to put on here, but you just screw it right on to the front, and that's how you use the filter on the front of the camera. I have a filter on the front of this one, this is not a color filter. But the idea is there. It is a UV filter, and it helps block unwanted UV rays from getting onto the picture. So, the same thing, you just screw it right on there and then the filter's on. And, if you notice, on the inside ring, it has more grooves in there so you can actually stack filters if you wanted to use several of 'em to get it to achieve a desired effect that you're looking for."