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TIFFEN FILTER FACTS

BLACK & WHITE FILTERS

• Color filters are useful in black & white photography to give a truer rendition of the gray tones.

• There are approximately 200 shades of gray that your eye can recognize.

• B&W filters help maintain the proper brightness relationship between colors.

• There are three categories of B&W filters: correction, contrast, and haze.

• Lighter colored filters are generally used as correction filters in B&W.

• Yellow 8 is the most popular correction filter, because of the contrast it adds to landscapes and cloudy skies.

• Other popular contrast filters: deep yellow 15, orange 21, red 25, blue 47, green 58.

• Haze filters minimize haze to give clearer images of distant scenes. If you'd rather keep the haze: yellow 8, to reduce haze: deep yellow 15 or red 25, and to increase haze: 47 blue.

• Three most useful B&W filters: yellow 8, red 25, green 1 (11)

yellow 8	red 25	green 1

• To lighten an object, choose a filter the same color as the object.

• To darken an object, choose a filter color that absorbs the color of the object

• You cannot darken an overcast sky with a contrast filter. Use a Color Grad filter instead.

• The same filters that darken blue skies also lighten skin tones.

• A polarizer filter can be used with B&W film to achieve the same polarizer effect obtained on color film. - reduces reflections and glare / deepens sky tonality while creating contrast to white clouds.

B&W FILTER TIPS

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