It's a great filter for springtime foliage. Lightens leaves of fresh growth in somewhat the fashion of infrared film, but of course much less dramatic.
For portraits I routinely carry a light yellow-green XO filter for use with panchromatic film. It renders a more natural look, since typical pan
film is slightly depressed with respect to green sensitivity. The deeper X1 is wonderful for certain landscape applications. It's especially useful in the desert where you might want to darken the sky to bring out contrast in the clouds, but don't want red sandstone coming out pasty and unnaturally bright. I can also be useful for portraits of older men, where you want to accentuate wrinkles and age spots - that kind of rugged character effect which once prompted portrait pros to routinely use ortho film for the same specific application.
Green lipstick helps.
The only lips I like in the photos below are the ones on the blonde wearing a hat. Just my personal taste.
Edit: I must've done something naughty since the center photo has disappeared.
This is a classic example where one tricks people with faked images to suit an agenda.
The photo in the middle really doesn't look like what a yellow-green filter does to a portrait unless the model has DEEP RED lipstick and that the image was heavily post processed in PS.
When I use hand held cameras, which is virtually all the photographs I take, the slowest shutter speed I use is 1/[lens focal length].
I can do better than 1/FL in some cameras. TLR for instance. I am likely to enlarge the 120 negative a good deal less than 35mm, minimizing any blur from camera shake, there's no mirror slap, and I can steady it against my chest, tension the strap, take a deep breath, half exhale and hold.. I've gotten some acceptable shots at quite slow (less than 1/25) speeds that way. Not every one, but enough to make it worth a try. Usually if you pay attention you can feel your heartbeat and it you have a reasonably slow pulse (mine at rest is usually in the 60s, 60 of course would be one second intervals) you can even try to release the shutter just at the end of a beat, which means trying to do it ON the beat - the tiny delay will mean the exposure is made and ended before another heart beat causes a minor twitch.
It helps to have done some target shooting back in the day.
It helps to have done some target shooting back in the day.
I think the green (X1) filter is just about useless. (...) I wouldn't want to shoot with that lens under 250 to be assured of a sharp photo.
The "Human" shot, is that with the green filter?
That's a very narrow usage. I wouldn't spend $30-40 on a filter to just do that.
The green filter is best for lightening up the leaves and stems of plants.
That's a very narrow usage. I wouldn't spend $30-40 on a filter to just do that.
I generally do not, but when the green filter is included in a purchase I make the purchase and set the green filter aside.
No, I wouldn't spend $30 or $40 on a green filter. I'd want something better. I use these quite a bit.
That's a very narrow usage. I wouldn't spend $30-40 on a filter to just do that.
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