The Yellow Filter

Ken Ramos · Post by **Ken Ramos** » Wed May 16, 2007 4:56 pm

Still experimenting with monochrome. Notice I said "monochrome" and not black and white. Sure as I say black and white, someone is gonna say, "well...I see very little black or white, humph!"

Oh well, each to his own. It is all subjective as they say. Anyhow, I was displeased with the contrast and general overall appearance of the photographs that I have taken so far and still I have a few reservations about them. Of course the more I work with it, monochorme that is, the better they, my photographs, will get...hopefully.

Anyhow here are a couple more but these taken with the use of a yellow filter, well not actually but an electronic one. The yellow filter is supposed to make blue skies look more natural and white clouds a bit clearer. So with the latter being considered, I wondered how well would the yellow work with brighter shades such as the white in flowers or in the accenting of highlights. Assuming that some of us may consider clouds to have a lot of white in them, but we all know what assuming gets us.

Anyway I seem to like the effect the filter gives a bit better than without it. Though the whites are almost blown in some places, second image, they still held up much better than in some of my images before using the yellow filter mode in the 30D and I noticed that the textures and shadows look much better than before too.

Now that I think of it, it would probably have been better to have done before and after shots but time was limited when I took these and as they say, "hindsight is 20/20."

Lame Ol'Honeysuckle again, but I like Honeysuckles

EOS 30D
Manual mode/hand held/ EOS yellow filtering
1/250 sec. @ f/14 ISO 400
Canon EF-S 60mm f/2.8 macro
Canon 430EX Speedlite @ -2/3

Blackberry Blossom
EOS 30D
Manual mode/hand held/ EOS yellow filtering
1/250 sec. @ f/11 ISO 400
Canon EF-S 60mm f/2.8 macro
Canon 430EX Speedlite @ -2/3

beetleman · Post by **beetleman** » Thu May 17, 2007 5:51 am

You are definitely getting some nice contrast in monochrome on the first picture Ken. I like the way the honeysuckle flower pops out (very 3D looking). The anthers look very sharp and flow into the middle of the picture. There is a little distracting spider web thing between the flowers that I would have tried to airbrush out other than that, a beautiful picture. The blackberry picture seems to lack open space in the middle, like the flowers tend to get mixed up with each other too much or maybe it needs more or darker shadowing to bring out the textures more. Like the lower flower that is open more and the darker anthers are nice and contrasting against the petals. If all the flowers were like that, I think they would stand out much more IMO. I love the textures on the branch coming in from the right in the second picture.

Ken Ramos · Post by **Ken Ramos** » Thu May 17, 2007 4:46 pm

Yeah your right about the flowers there Doug, they do look a bit crowded but hey...thanks!