Beacon Camera Club

As we start to look at light and how it behaves I would like everyone to investigate using a Yellow filter, don't worry it's not going to get all scary and scientific.
My cameras allows me to shoot mono jpeg's and they pop up in the preview window to see what I'm getting but I would ask you to start thinking and seeing in mono.

I asked myself if filters were relevant these days given the amount of editing software available. What you need to remember, a filter placed in front of the lens is affecting the available light coming into the camera. If you start manipulating the digital info later, your software was based on a programming instruction built by an oriental who has no idea of what your landscape picture was supposed to look like.

Exercise 1

Do you have some filters knocking around
Check your camera controls, do you have a mono setting. Can you include a yellow filter
I used P mode for the shoot and AWB everything else set to zero we will look at contrast and things later

Take a series of 4 photos
1. straight colour
2. straight mono.
3. straight mono with camera filter set to Y (yellow)
4. straight mono with external yellow filter

compare the results
post examples here, critique and look at this sections Facebook

Brian,

I can't find any yellow filters on my Lumix G80 or rather there are 22 filter effects which I've never explored.They're labeled "Toy pop" and "high key" and "impressive art" and so on. I can't see any plain "yellow". Am I missing something?

Anyway, here's my post using PSE11 convert to black and white button and tweaking the red, green and blue sliders levels and then using levels to darken it and then fill layer with 50% grey to increase the contrast. I think.

nice one Bill, thanks for posting, I would try to increase the highlights so you get a bit of a lead in to the photo