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    I generally always carry a yellow, #11 and a soft 2 stop graduated ND. When on the shoreline a UV.

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    Re: Filters you would not leave home without? => Giving life to the image.

    Quote Originally Posted by Brian Ellis View Post
    I leave home without any filters except a polarizer. Photoshop pretty much eliminates the need for the old b&w standbys like red, green, orange, and yellow as well as warming filters.
    Not exactly the same. Beside changing the contrast, simplistically: red lightens red, green lighten greens, orange lighten oranges and yellows lighten yellows.

    Believing Photo$hop can do everything filters or a darkroom can, is not being honest with oneself.

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    Re: Filters you would not leave home without? => Giving life to the image.

    Quote Originally Posted by Sirius Glass View Post
    Not exactly the same. Beside changing the contrast, simplistically: red lightens red, green lighten greens, orange lighten oranges and yellows lighten yellows.

    Believing Photo$hop can do everything filters or a darkroom can, is not being honest with oneself.

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    Re: Filters you would not leave home without? => Giving life to the image.

    Brian, I am glad that you enjoyed that.
    Nothing beats a great piece of glass!

    I leave the digital work for the urologists and proctologists.

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    Re: Filters you would not leave home without? => Giving life to the image.

    Quote Originally Posted by Sirius Glass View Post
    Not exactly the same. Beside changing the contrast, simplistically: red lightens red, green lighten greens, orange lighten oranges and yellows lighten yellows.

    Believing Photo$hop can do everything filters or a darkroom can, is not being honest with oneself.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sirius Glass View Post
    Believing Photo$hop can do everything filters or a darkroom can, is not being honest with oneself.
    Absolutely true.

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    Re: Filters you would not leave home without? => Giving life to the image.

    I have a set of beautiful filters, made by Lee, I think. There seems to be no reason to carry them around. I don't like black skies at all. If I want to pick up the delicacy of the light in one area, like leaves, I just pull up on the curve, or mask the area, then pull up on the curve... I really don't see the need for filters any more...

    I am often disagreeing with Brian, but I have to agree with him on this one. If you are one of those who uses Photoshop, and you know your masking well, I can't see the use...

    I am willing to have my mind changed (as I still have the filters) and would be interested if someone could make a case for using filters in the field when digital printing is to be utilized.

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    Re: Filters you would not leave home without? => Giving life to the image.

    If you are shooting IR film that is sensitive to both visual and IR radiation you will need a deep red filter, something like a R72, to block visual light get the IR look. I don't believe there is any way to replicate this look with Photoshop , though there is an IR filter for conversion of RGB to B&W that comes pretty close if you start with a scan of color film.

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    Re: Filters you would not leave home without? => Giving life to the image.

    Quote Originally Posted by Lenny Eiger View Post
    If you are one of those who uses Photoshop, and you know your masking well, I can't see the use...
    I agree completely.

    Filters are of no use to those who do computer graphics.

    But they're very useful to photographers.

    Whether or not a particular shooter chooses to use them is an artistic decision.

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    Re: Filters you would not leave home without? => Giving life to the image.

    All the usuals for B&W but also 47B - deep blue. Without it some rock formations are dead flat. With it they pop. I learned about its use when photographing rock art but found that some rock responds beautifully to it. Dark green has a similar effect though I don't have one.

    It's a 3 stop filter but the dark blue makes it a devil to focus through. It's probably best to focus without then just add the filter prior to exposure.

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