yellow filter

Good thread. I've found medium to dark yellow filters very kind to skin tone and skin imperfections, like others have commented. The downside in using them while shooting with available light is that candlelight and chandelier-style lighting indoors will induce reflections. I have a good example of this problem to share, but I'm not yet scanner-ready (working on it): "floating" Christmas lights at a party (interesting effect but not quite where I needed them). So, the filter comes off in such situations. Otherwise I'm a fan of yellow filter use and would like to locate the yellow/green combination just to try it. Cheers.
 
I would like to revive this old thread because I hope to hear from anyone who has done comparisons between using the yellow-green filter or yellow with no filter used at all.


I am currently looking for a E39 yellow filter for b&w shooting. Seems like it is quite hard to find.
 
A colour filter in bw will lighten similar colours and darken opposite colours. The effect can be seen by simply holding a filter up and moving it into and out of your line of vision repeatedly, concentrating on the changes in lightness and darkness of colours, rather than concentrating on hue. Coloured cellophane will do if you just want to see the effect without buying a filter.
 
back alley said:
but what about street shooting where the sky is not often included in the pic?
if you are shooting mostly urban streets with people in the shot - do you use a yellow (or any) filter?

i'm thinking about stopping the use of filters completely when i do my normal shooting.joe
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My rule is, if I don't know why I'm using a filter, I don't use one.

Doug said:
Well, it's always useful to keep in mind that shadows are usually illuminated only by the blue sky, and those yellow/orange/red filters will make them darker.
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Agreed, and that is a great example of avoiding the use of a filter when we don't have a specific purpose. The filter might make things worse instead of better.
 
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