This blog will act as a learning log for the "Art of Photography" course which I'm studying. This course is the introductory module for the Open College of the Arts (OCA), Photography Degree course.

Saturday 12 January 2013

Part 3 - Exercise 4

This exercise is to mimic the effects of using colour filters in black and white photography. In digital, following  conversion to Black & White you can raise the brightness of red/yellow/green/blue to recreate the effect of using a filter. This has the same effect as a filter because, for example, a yellow filter will let more yellow light than any other colour, so had the effect of raising the brightness of all yellow objects.

colour

b&w - unfiltered

red filter
The above photo is the equivalent of using a red filter - the red top is now significantly lighter than it was previously.

yellow filter
And now the yellow filter makes the yellow top lighter.

green filter
The green top was pretty dark so while it's made lighter it's still quite dark.

blue filter
And now the blue filter.

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