What do colored lens filters do?

5 years 1 week ago #639247 by Fran Welch
Speaking of filters, I noticed there are all different colored filters out there.  What do these do?

Example: red filter,  green and yellow


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5 years 1 week ago #639249 by Nikon Shooter
The mentioned colour filters are/were mainly used in
B&W photography in the days. Not really necessary
today as proper converters will translate to B&W any
recording — even emulating colour filters as well.

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5 years 1 week ago #639258 by Fran Welch
So most  won't use these then?  Can't you convert your photo to B&W in Photoshop  or Nik Software?  


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5 years 1 week ago #639280 by garyrhook

Fran Welch wrote: So most  won't use these then?  Can't you convert your photo to B&W in Photoshop  or Nik Software?  


Um, yes?

PS can host plugins like Nik, but they're not required. LR, etc, allow the manipulation of color/etc. Lots of power, lots of choices, lots of education out there.


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5 years 1 week ago #639282 by Screamin Scott
As well as B&W contrast modifiers, some were also to correct colt temperature. Ie: incadescent film shot under fluorescent lights

Scott Ditzel Photography

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5 years 1 week ago #639317 by Ozzie_Traveller
G'day Fran

Back in the days of film & 'black & white' negs / prints, the regime was "a coloured filter will lighten its own colour, and darken its opposite colour" when one considers the regular colour-wheel. Thus serious 'togs would have 3 or 4 coloured filters in the bag and use them as appropriate

On the internet today, there are still ads trying to sell coloured filters to us digital users - and if you use one, you simply end up with a red-blue-yellow-whatever coloured image

As others ^^ have noted, you can take an everyday digital image and in PP you can convert it to B&W and use the sliders to accentuate the tones to emulate the old days of film

Hope this helps
Phil from the great land Downunder
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Phil from the great land Downunder
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4 years 11 months ago #643624 by fmw

Fran Welch wrote: So most  won't use these then?  Can't you convert your photo to B&W in Photoshop  or Nik Software?  


Of course.  You can even apply the effects of the filters to the image in the software.  In fact most image editing software (including photoshop)  Allow you to filter the three primary colors individually on a sliding scale.  We can do much more with b&w images today in image processing software than we ever could in the film days.


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