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Filter choices photographing icy city (land) scapes

  • 02-01-2010 12:43am
    #1
    Simplicius
    Closed Accounts Posts: 424 ✭✭


    Preamble, This is about colour film photography and what filters to use.

    I am planning to wander around tomorrow and shot some of the frozen urban landscape. I noticed lots of lovely ice shots today but have a yearning to play with filters too.

    200ASA colour film:

    My current thinking is:
    1: a circular polariser initially to get the ice crystal formations jumping out.
    Then I have the following fun options. (two stops gone a begging)

    Light and dark blue solid filters (1/2 or 2 stops)
    Light & dark Blue Graduated Filters (1/2 or 2 stops)

    This should as far as I know make everything sharp blues and whites ?

    Am I on the right track.... not much information on net as most is digital based but I know the 'collective' always has some information in it's hive mind. :rolleyes:


Comments

  • #2
    Simplicius
    Closed Accounts Posts: 424 ✭✭Simplicius


    Can someone go poke Daire with a stick and wake him up, he always knows this kinda stuff ....:D


  • #3
    Chorcai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,283 ✭✭✭Chorcai


    would the same rules apply to both ?


  • #4
    darraghsherwin
    Registered Users Posts: 164 ✭✭darraghsherwin


    Are you using colour neg or slide? If I was shooting snow, I'd go for Provia 400
    It will balance the whites nicely as long as you overexpose by about 2/3rds of stop.
    As for filters, I'd just go with ND grads and a polariser, but have never actually used them in the snow, as I find the snow is usually metering about the same as the sky.

    Darragh


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