Cloud Separation

**Andrew O'Neill** · 5-Apr-2008, 08:11

Like I said previously...don't go beyond a #15.

**SAShruby** · 5-Apr-2008, 09:48

Starbucks?

Bleah.

Worst coffee franchise ever. Cofee is burnt, expensive and taste awfull.

**Kirk Gittings** · 5-Apr-2008, 15:58

Originally Posted by Andrew O'Neill

don't go beyond a #15......retire the #15 filter, Mark Sampson

My standard go to filter for clouds and landscape are a #16 yellow orange..... on a hazy or low contrast day maybe a 23a occasionally.

CG · 5-Apr-2008, 18:18

Originally Posted by Mark Sampson

Trust me, don't over-filter. I have a negative from last week of clouds with shafts of sunlight on the beach- it's way too contrasty, the proof looks overdone. I'm going to have to a) work hard printing it and b) retire the #15 filter. 25 years of practice and still things to learn!

Is it possible the issue was as much the underlying contrast of the scene as the selection of filter? Might have been that to make the combination work, you would have had to dial back the development quite a bit. If the #15 was there to create tonal separation or a tonal statement, that statement may have been entirely appropriate, but the range of exposure may have needed more control.

Just a thought / guess....

C