RE: begging for wisdom - filter use

I use a Fuji SC48 yellow filter ( I believe it is #8 with Kodak) with any
photo with the sky in it and also with a lot of green foilage and the
results are quite natural lookingand "relatively" easy to print as opposed
to using no filter. I give the exposure at least an extra stop from the
meter reading. Or with a spot meter you can hold a spare filter over the
meter. Supposedly you would use a darker higher number filter for more
dramatic Ansel Adams type skies (not my usual choice). You can buy a square
gelatin filter and cut off a tiny piece 1 cm sqaure and tape it over the
pinhole either inside or out. When it gets funky throw it away and cut off
another small piece. One big square lasts a long time. BTW in Japan at
least the Fuji filters are much cheaper!

Check out my website if you want to see what my skies look like, but
remember the monitor is rather limiting and the clouds are the most
difficult to pick up with the scanner. Also the skies were usually burned
in some in the darkroom before the prints were scanned.
http://www.edophoto.com

ED

>through the clouds, etc., etc., etc. I'm wondering if anyone has any
>suggestions on how to get good contrast between the sky and the clouds, in
>particular. Is it better to use a filter when shooting or in the printing
>stage? (I'll use negatives as final images, but I won't use the originals.)
>I'm planning on shooting 4x5 TMax 100, but will probably take along some 400
>also. I'd rather not bring along any developing apparatus, but I may lose my
>nerve and load my suitcase up.

  Edward Levinson
*Specializing in Fine Art and Editorial Pinhole Photography*
*online portfolio at http://www.edophoto.com *
Received on Fri May 31 05:47:01 2002