Your favorite/best filter for B&W photography?

[Pirate]

Yellow?

Red?

Green?

Red/Orange?

Blue?

What do you use and what do you like? ...and why? And with what films?

 

[John Robertson]

Yellow/Green, good for skin tones,foliage and skies. Often overlooked, the one that was recommended by my instructor years ago at the Leica Schule in Wetzlahr!!😉
Mostly use XP2 and Foma 100

 

[divewizard]

The following are in the order I tend yo use them:

1) I find I use an orange with TMAX most of the time.
2) I sometimes you a very light yellow in low light.
3) I use a yellow-green or green for portraits.
4) I usually use yellow with HP5+
5) I use red for dramatic effects and clouds
6) I use dark red for for even more dramatic effects
7) I use blue to enhance fog

Here is a dark red example with a GW690 and Ilford Pan F

Here is an example with a Nikon FM with Nikkor 55mm f/1.2 and a Blue filter and Efke 25

Here is a portrait with a GW690, HP5+, and a green filter

And here is an example with an TMAX100, an Olympus 35SP, and an orange filter

©2011 Chris Grossman

 

[f16sunshine]

Light Green for Portraits and nudes.
I'll try the blue in fog. S

 

[filmfan]

UV for me.

 

[semilog]

B+W medium orange. Fantastic with ACROS/LP100. I most often shoot TMY400-2 which is a bit red-shifted anyway, so yellow doesn't make a dramatic difference.

 

[Roger Hicks]

Light or medium yellow with <90mm

Dark yellow or light yellow/orange with >90mm

@90mm, any of the above

Cheers,

R.

 

[Chris101]

Almost always red. "The redder, the better."

 

[Gary E]

@Divewizard. That first shot is awsome and wouldn't hesitate to print at 24x36 poster size to put up on my wall. You definitely know your filters and film combos. 😉 But it makes me miss my GW670III a lot though 🙁

Me, I usually have a yellow/med yellow on most of the time; I take it off indoors though (need speed). Other times, green for skin and red for skies.