darktable black and white with orange filter

You normally use a color filter on film if you wanted to contrast something in the background, like the sky for a more dramatic one using red filters for example. In this case, the default conversion profile renders less contrasted results (P) with more gray tones and gives a result simmilar to the lightness component (From an HSL color model) (L).īlocking out colors in the background, making person seem brighter to make them pop, or something like that?

Panchromatic film is already taking into account more green in the light spectrum than red and blue, that are on the extremes of visible light spectrum, so the tendency will look more like the green sample(G)īut modern color profiles and conversion tools uses a more complex combinations than simple color filters as you can see on the sliders of a grayscale conversion. As the skin has more red component the skin will look brighter when using a red filter (R) and the oposite hapens when using green (G) or blue (B) filters. Let me start with primary light colors RGB. The method I am using is simply using the primary channel of a colour RGB image. I will focus on Digital aspects but will give you an idea of what to expect with film. There is a really important diference if you are using film or is a digital photo.

Darktable black and white with orange filter