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How to Make Black and White Pictures Look Bright? How do I make black and white photography look bright, so that the pictures won't be looking sad. Also, I would like to know how to focus better, since the place we look in the camera doesn't go together with the objective.
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John A. Lind |
Try yellow (#6, #8, K, K1 or K2), orange (#15 or G) and red (#23, #25 or A) filters. These are specifically for B/W use. I generally keep a yellow #6 on the lens with B/W outdoors unless I'm using one of the others. These will increase contrast in the order in which I listed them (yellow the least and red the most), and will darken blue sky, improving its contrast with clouds particular. If you are doing portraiture the yellow will work well. The orange or red may make skin tones seem unnatural. The red can produce dramatic results but it is trickiest as anything red, or with significant red in it will end up looking pale. I don't recommend the red for anything with significant skin tones, but it can be very useful with architecture and scenics. You will find green (#11, #13, X1, or X2) mentioned as another B/W filter. It has a more specialized use in portraits to darken sky directly behind people and indoors to render skin tones better under tungsten lighting, and to lighten foliage in direct sunlight to bring out its texture. -- John
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