SilverOxide
Enhanced Filters
The
Enhanced version of the filter includes three color filters
that B&W photographers have used for years. Now
these filters are at your disposal in electronic form.
When
you click on the checkbox, the filter is electronically placed
between the color image and the modeling filter. You
see the effect of having used that color filter with that
film.
Red
is used to darken a blue sky, making the clouds and moon
dramatic as they float in a black sky. Experiment with portraits,
still life, product photography. [{Note: most new digital cameras
have a noisy red channel}]
Yellow
is used to perk up portraits as well as reduce haze.
Green
improves outdoor portraits taken in open shade, changing background
contrast, tonal values and even blemishes.The best thing is
that you can try any filter without changing the original image.
You
can do over as many different ways as you want. Suppose
that you went to the top of the Logan's Pass in Glacier National
Park. And there you took a picture in color.
Now
you can see what the mountain. glaciers and lakes would have
looked like in Tri-x with a red filter; or a yellow or a green
filter. Optimize the brightness and contrast, just as
you would when you printed in a wet darkroom, by changing the
film development time or the printing time. But in the
past you could only develop the film once. You blow that
and you have lost the art. But with these filters
you can slide the gamma and brightness sliders and change everything
as many times as you want.
