Using optical color filters with monochorme FILM is quite legitimate, but there can be a problem using optical filters with digital that you didn't investigate. That is, the digital sensor consists of a color mosaic with green having half the total pixels and red and blue each having one quarter the total pixels. Therefore, if you use a deep blue or red optical filter, your resolution is reduced by a factor of two in each direction. If you use a digital camera without an optical filter, the demosaicing algorithm mixes the detail of all three channels into the others. You then have (nearly) full detail in any color you choose, and you can make that choice by using Photoshop math calculations to select (fort example) pure red; or orange consisting of full red and and some green; or yellow (red + green); or pure blue and still have full details in all these cases.

Honestly, I kind of like the way the colored pictures look like just a filter it gives a need affect

There is also the particular issue where using an rggb sensor might make a pure red or blue filter cause a loss of perceived resolution because it's only really activating 25% of the pixels.

I'm currently trying to create black and white filter glasses. I can't get it to work though. Any Ideas?

I learned a lot from this. Thank you!!

Can filters work on digital camera or dose thr electronic camera settings just work around the filters on the sdr camera !

Interesting video. For us Filmophiles it might be a good idea to take along a small digicam that has manual white balance and B&W display capability to test the effects on a particular scene before shooting the real deal.

Actually the blue was the best

Your face looks like david bowie oml

your vibe is sooooo daaaaaaamn positive

keep goin' boss

i dont like orange and red as they remove all the details on the skin, as if the face been photoshopped... the blue actually looks ok to me...

Youtube auto play landed me on this speaker. Big turn off this guy talk so fast

hi Joseph, thank you for the video. I am using Lumix G9. I think I still have a couple of questions to ask.
1- monocraom is "natural" B&W?
2- Color and monochrome should not be in the same body? Pure monochrome is better when it comes to B&W photography because of color interpolation?
3- Is there color interpolation with Lumix G9 when taking in B&W?

Comment: Unfortunately many camera companies are driven by money and populistic policy. They don't want to understand photography as an art form. they put everything in one body, color monochrome, video, and photography.
As far as I know, only Leica is aware of that subject, and Leica is not a technology-leading company and is unreasonably expensive.

Maybe we should encourage HASSELBLAD to create a monochrome line in medium format.
thanks.

Is there a filter set for B&W that works with the K&F Concept 100 x 100 filter holder?

Dizzying watching speaker hand shuffles, a fast speaker fast active body gestures just fast. I wonder how he approach long exposure, the calm settling mood. Reminds me of a Las Vegas card dealer hand work

try>set profile to monochrome>jpeg>use filter

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Thanks Joseph. You’ve inspired me to experiment 👍👍

Do you think the contest is still open?

Great topic and well explained, thanks.

Dude, this is 100% the best tutorial I have seen on the topic. I just bought a Q2 Monochrom to mess with -- along side my Sony A7RIII when I go on my travels around the world (assuming we don't have viruses). I have never used a color filter in my life so this is all new. My guess is the color slider in Lightroom is similar -- but I think I might take a red and orange filter for bright days with clouds and try that game... Likely toss them in a while -- but always good to learn more in order to understand my tool better... Thanks... Love your communications skills.

thanks for a great video :-) just bought an old Topcon film camera and was stoked to find all the color filters go on the "inside" of the lenses and are just tiny (1/3" or so) all of them fit inside the lens holder. looking forward to try them out. Thanks again for a very informative 30 minutes.

wow you look like Bowie!

hey great video! Have ever though of just doing HDR to get wider dynamic range? WIth digital camera this is very vial alternative.

Hey Joseph, could you watch the YKTS music video by Sheck Wes. And tell me if they used a green filter or night-vision mode from a camcorder. I really like the the style of the video, and would like to know what they used thanks. ✨

Finally, someone that speaks at a reasonable speed.

Red was definitely the most dramatic in both examples

Nice tutorial. What are the stops of the different colors?

Get to the point

I think one advantage example of how shooting b/w WITH the coloured glass filter vs adding a filter in software is that you don't get the halo effects around certain object such as tree branches which can really spoil the clarity and detail of an image. This mostly happens with large software modifications. Perhaps the best compromise is to not use an actual filter and post process gently for clarity AND the choice of filters in post production. The best quality though would be gained with a glass filter, especially if you have time to shoot multiple shots, changing the filter colour each time as you did.

I think the yellow looked best on the face for a SUBTLE skin smoothing (orange looked too hazy), and the blue or green for a GRITTY look if one is into that!
Cheers for tackling a tricky subject to explain, and your time.

Great video, very informative. Thank you :-)

dude what about the buit in filters in camera?

Very informative and i liked it..
+ 1 new subscriber here...

Fantastic , thank you, I got a lot of what I need!!!

Link to the step down rings? Didn't see it above (or I'm just really unobservant 😛).

you should have adjusted the exposure to be the same between images, i think that makes the whole difference as to the clouds appearing or not there. the red filter image is 2 stops under the first one, which is actually a little overexposed. thumbs down

who won the contest? I am assuming its over.

is there supposed to be a big difference with colored filters? when you also have that black and white filter on it too?

Where tf is the purple filter

How does stepping down large filters affect flaring etc?

Please condense your endless blah blah blah

Hello Joseph, I just found your excellent, attention holding, best explained tutorial on the use of color filters for B&W photography! Although I use a Fujifilm X-T1, a mirror-less camera, which has film simulation modes, I want to see if using color filters will make a difference. Thank you for your expertise and examples! This was the best video on using color filters I have seen. I look forward to using some of your tips!

Yellow is best

shame about the patreon begging...put me RIGHT off !

Shoot some Kodak or Ilford classic film in medium format and forget about imitations of film and that beautiful film grain. I don't think it's worth using color filters on my digicams.

Which app is that on the tablet where you swapped the filters on your face?

You would think I’m crazy but I can record in rainbow colors videos make a picture of the lake n trees rainbow colors in still or video, I can at certain light situations record with an iPhone a 2 tons shadow trees. I can do blue red yellow green turquoise purple orange. The outfit I have I had to make myself out of party trays and plates from party city and I cut them out. I use a reduced light and Noir setting to get vivid sky photography cirrus clouds do best. Another color idea for I phone crazy color recordings is get some color cellophane red purple etc and tape a piece over your iPhone camera and record. I admit I did it literally all homestyle. I don’t care about views or subs but just if curious there is much of it on my channel. Photography is a fun hobby and I learned more about black n white from this thanks for the additional info I will take some color vids and experiment with black n white thank you.

Monochrome portraits would have more enhancement of shadows with which color filter?

I really liked this video, thank you!

YOU ARE AWESOME!!!! ONE OF THE BEST TUTORIALS I HAVE EVER SEEN

There's an issue here in using color filters with digital cameras (oldtvnut mentioned it too): the fact that we already have color filters on the censor. What happens when you use a color filter is that you're practically disabling or reducing the effectiveness of photodiodes that have certain colors. The problem is that those diodes won't be used for other colors, and you're losing some data without gaining anything else. This is different from film photography, where you can use the same potential for brightness of any color, and increase your "resolution" or dynamic range by using the color filters on the camera instead of in the darkroom.

There's just one small advantage that you get by using color filters on a digital camera: if the "histogram" of the scene is not similar for different colors, by using a color filter you can see the output and set a more precise exposure to capture a wider range, compared to when you expose the photo for all colors. This is not significant though; I never got a noticeable difference. And in fact, if you're really serious, you can temporarily add the filter, set the exposure, remove it, and then shoot in color, to have the best possible result in post.

So, in general, in a color camera, I believe it's best to capture the image in color and apply the filters in post, because you have more control, and you also have more flexibility (using masks and applying different settings to different parts of the image).

I've had a real monochrome digital camera for a while, and that's when you can really use color filters. However, even with this, the result that you can get is not as significant as you get in post with a color image, because in post, you can also apply negative values to a color and get a bigger effect, which is obviously not possible with a monochrome camera that uses color filters.