whats your favorite filter ?

[removed account4]

yeah i know it seems like an open question,
but whats your favorite filter ?

i'm not much for dark reds, or uv or yellows or oranges
but i do like shooting through dirty windows
plastic wrap, and fluids ...

whats your fav ?

 

[richard ide]

Coffee?

 

[Ken Nadvornick]

CP60M...

Because it removed enough excess green from my old set of Aristo VCL tubes to give my enlarger a full range of contrast settings from 0 through 5 with the simple twist of a dial.

Ken

 

[Jeff Kubach]

Polarizer.

Jeff

 

[2F/2F]

Wratten #11 (Hoya XO), and 80A (because I use hot lamps).

 

[tony lockerbie]

Probably yellow-green, don't mind the odd bit of orange though.

 

[Wade D]

The polarizer is my favorite also.

 

[Athiril]

85A on C-41 film in heavy overcast or in forests.

 

[2F/2F]

85A on C-41 film in heavy overcast or in forests.

This looks great. I do the same too, since I shoot a lot in canyons. But I think mine is just an 85, with no A. I also use this filter with an 82B, which cools it by about 300K, and requires an added 1/3 stop over the 85 alone. Sometimes if there is a lot of sun streaming into the shot, the 85 alone makes it too warm for my taste.

 

[Mick Fagan]

Orange. or yellow/green.

 

[Carl V]

Being purely a shooter in black & white, I'd say yellow and orange.

 

[André E.C.]

There's always a medium yellow on my optics, I also use orange here and there.


André

 

[coigach]

Since I shoot b+w slides, my 3 stop ND Grad is used a lot to stop skies burning out.

I also often use a yellow filter too for a little more ooommph...!

 

[Rick A]

Number 3 contrast on my enlarger. Oh, and I keep a yellow filter on my OM-1, I only shoot b&w with it.

 

[kondensor1]

Heliopan Infrared 780 for Efke IR 820 Aura

 

[Athiril]

This looks great. I do the same too, since I shoot a lot in canyons. But I think mine is just an 85, with no A. I also use this filter with an 82B, which cools it by about 300K, and requires an added 1/3 stop over the 85 alone. Sometimes if there is a lot of sun streaming into the shot, the 85 alone makes it too warm for my taste.

I compared two shots, both balanced to the same colour, exposure compensated for with the filter, same colour, but more vibrant on the 85A

 

[Ian Grant]

The only filter I tend to use is Green.

Ian

 

[Jeff Kubach]

I forgot to mention I use a yellow for B&W.

Jeff

 

[keithwms]

#87. With rollei IR or superpan.

 

[Sirius Glass]

1) The filter that improves the composition just before the photograph is taken.
2) Polarizer

 

[David Brown]

Red.

 

[CGW]

Cokin #173 Blue/Yellow polarizer with E100GX for gorgeously unreal Windex blue skies at higher latitudes.

 

[Klainmeister]

UV filters.....because they protect all my glass

 

[georg16nik]

Yellow

 

[polyglot]

CPL or R72, otherwise Red #25.

Why yes, I like the drama.