Amphoto Guide to Using Filters Overview
Combining technique and creativity, this book remains the definitive source for data about the full range of filters and their application with both color and black-and-white film. Now that so many different filters are available, serious photographers may take a dozen on a photo shoot for producing the different effects that are shown in these pages. The book's hundred beautiful images illustrate how chromatic (colored)filters change the color content of light; nonchromatic (colorless) filters physically change light waves; and special filters, such a multiple-prism, starburst, and streak, create illusions that go beyond what we think of as visual reality.
Combining technique and creativity, this book remains the definitive source for data about the full range of filters and their application with both color and black-and-white film. Now that so many different filters are available, serious photographers may take a dozen on a photo shoot for producing the different effects that are shown in these pages. The book's hundred beautiful images illustrate how chromatic (colored)filters change the color content of light; nonchromatic (colorless) filters physically change light waves; and special filters, such a multiple-prism, starburst, and streak, create illusions that go beyond what we think of as visual reality.
Joseph Meehan, author of Panoramic Photography, writes frequently for photo magazines. He lives in Salisbury, Connecticut.
