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Colour Filters in Black & White Photography

FILM Photographs Taken with Colour Filters

I’ve been to Tenerife many times and fell in love with its varied landscapes, fauna and flora. Some times I travel with a digital camera; and sometimes I eschew the digital camera and deliberately take a film camera with a full array of films and colour filters! The following photographs from Tenerife were from one of these trips. The landscapes were taken on a hike through the lunar landscapes near Vilaflor and were photographed with a red filter. And the photographs taken near the sea were taken using an orange filter near Fañabe Beach (Adeje) and Puerto de Tajao.

 

Colour Filters in Black & White Photography - image 1 - student project

Ilford Delta 100 + Red Filter
Tenerife, Spain

 

Colour Filters in Black & White Photography - image 2 - student project

Ilford Delta 100 + Red Filter
Tenerife, Spain

 

Colour Filters in Black & White Photography - image 3 - student project

Kentmere 100 + Orange Filter
Puerto de Tajao, Tenerife

 

Colour Filters in Black & White Photography - image 4 - student project

Kentmere 100 + Orange Filter
Evgeniya on Fañabe Beach, Tenerife

 

Colour Filters in Black & White Photography - image 5 - student project

Kentmere 100 + Orange Filter
Waves breaking against rocks on Fañabe Beach, Tenerife

 

Colour Filters in Black & White Photography - image 6 - student project

Kentmere 100 + Orange Filter
Evgeniya on Fañabe Beach, Tenerife

 

DIGITAL Edits of RAW Photographs in Adobe Lightroom Classic

The following selection of digital photographs, which I prepared specially for this class, were taken on a road trip in the summer of 2013. We travelled with friends from Biella in Northern Italy down to Monaco and then along the Côte d'Azur, stopping in Saint-Tropez and Marseille, before travelling onwards to Barcelona. Due to work commitments many of the photographs I took on this journey remained dormant and unedited, so producing this class created the prefect opportunity to trawl through my archive, where I discovered these images. 

 

Colour Filters in Black & White Photography - image 7 - student project


Red Filter — Amount: 150
Black & White Mix — Red: -24; Orange: -17;  Yellow: -6; Green: +16; Aqua: -19; Blue: -47
Marseille, France

 

Colour Filters in Black & White Photography - image 8 - student project


Red Filter — Amount: 150
Black & White Mix — Red: -24; Orange: -17;  Yellow: -6; Green: +16; Aqua: -19; Blue: -47
Marseille, France

 

Colour Filters in Black & White Photography - image 9 - student project


Orange Filter — Amount: 185
Marseille, France

 

Colour Filters in Black & White Photography - image 10 - student project


Red Filter — Amount: 135
Black & White Mix — Red: -10; Orange: -35;  Yellow: -17; Aqua: -33; Blue: -71
Saint-Tropez, France

 

Colour Filters in Black & White Photography - image 11 - student project


Blue Filter — Amount: 100
Black & White Mix — Orange: -72;  Yellow: -38; Aqua: +91; Blue: +87
Temperature: from 5000 (as shot) to 6000
Tint: from +3 (as shot) to -34
Saint-Tropez, France

 

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—Dominic