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Working with colored lens filters and converting to black and white

Working with colored lens filters and converting to black and white

From the course: The Practicing Photographer

Working with colored lens filters and converting to black and white

- The modern digital camera delivers an incredible amount of image quality, high image quality, I should say. And with the flexibility of digital shooting you can really play with that image quality in a lot of ways, it's still as good as digital cameras are a lot of us still often go, Oh, yeah that's good, but I'm gonna really fix it up in post. I'm gonna do a lot of things in post. I'm gonna change this in post production, I'm gonna fix this in my image editor, and so on and so forth. Consequently, a lot of us don't think the way that film photographers used to think about filters and by filters I mean filters that you screw on to the end of your lens. This week on The Practicing Photographer we're going to look at a really good use for lens filters for digital photographers. And I'm going to speak specifically about shooting black and white with lens filters. This is something that film photographers were very used to doing using using colored filters to tone their images in…

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