Red & Green Filters w/ HP5

[@GregoryVeizades]

Green filters are excellent for portraiture. Especially with people whose skin has a large amount of pigment variation. Also people with light brown eyes will help their iris go darker.

[@BadFlashes]

Solid! I’m down with that

[@dumbguy9386]

I'm in a heavily forested part of the country. Would green work better for landscape than red in that case?

[@tylerhuttosmith]

The only reason I like to use a yellow filter is it slightly darkens the sky a little and I can use it overall a bit easier than red and orange. Also it’s just one stop over exposure

[@BadFlashes]

Love that, Ok you got me... im down

[@mechaben]

I think it would be awesome to see a video about color filters for color film! Like the effects of warming filters on cooler films like E100, or vice versa for a desired effect. There's nothing on youtube about it really Awesome content as always!

[@BadFlashes]

Oh thanks. And I like the idea!!! I’ll give it a think 🥰

[@justinconnaher8868]

Nice. It's always fun to see what filters do (and get frustrated at the red filter light compensation). Great sequence around 6:00 of you, AND that ending... FANTASTIC!

[@BadFlashes]

OH thanks!!! I know it is a bit ridiculous ... But I like ridiculous things 😂

[@justinconnaher8868]

@@BadFlashes I don't think it's ridiculous. Enjoy doing your thing.

[@BadFlashes]

Haha thanks ... someone has to be a bit crazy 😝

[@justinconnaher8868]

@@BadFlashes Only crazy from a certain point of view. 🤷🏽‍♂️

[@Ari-xr2ye]

I actually did not know that straw in the popcorn butter trick. You have enlightened me, and now I plan to use this knowledge as soon as I am able to go to a theatre. .... which probably still won’t be for a while with Canadian vaccine roll out speed. But thank you! Great video :)

[@BadFlashes]

haha dope! Im so glad I could help with something other than film 🤣

[@redsphoto6708]

Oh no, you also bought a Mamiya 7?!?! Great video as always! Stray tip: I only thought of this when I saw Nick Carver do it, but with your spot meter, you can just use your meter through the filter (like hold filter up to its lens) so that way you can probably avoid underexposing a lot like what happened with that plant. I need to use b&w filters more, they were fun the few times I tried

[@BadFlashes]

Thanks so much!!! And yeah... That’s a great tip! I hadn’t thought about that! Damn Nick C... brining out the good stuff.

[@GabrieleBoscaratto]

Hey Caleb! Did you tried already the filters for portraits? Red filter to smoothen and brighting, blue filter to accentuate details like freckles, or if it happens to take a portrait of an old sea captain 😁

[@BadFlashes]

Oh no, I haven’t. I don’t do a ton of portraits... but that’s awesome to know! I’ll have to try 🙌🏼

[@lstrfnx]

what's the name of the song/artist at 7:51?

[@BadFlashes]

I use epidemic sound. Not sure the name or artist :/

[@iNerdier]

Classically a yellow filter was the standard as it took off the high end of blues (which many films were more sensitive to) and also toned down reds. Lots of Ansel Adams photos for example had a yellow filter on them. Personally I find it hard to judge what something is going to look like in monochrome without a filter, let alone with one on. That said polarisers can be really handy and the one for the Mamiya 7 is just nuts, you should get one for the engineering alone. Personally I've been wanting to experiment with a blue filter as a means of cheaply faking orthochromatic looks for skin tones but just haven't got around to it lately, what with it being hard to organise indoor portrait shoots at the moment.

[@BadFlashes]

oh nice! that is pretty awesome I didn't know that! and I Agee it totally can be hard to know... I think I just need to shoot more Black and White to begin with. A blue filter could be really fun to play around with, I like your thinking!

[@iNerdier]

@@BadFlashes One other tip, just hold the filter over your light meter or at a pinch even your phone and use that to get a specific filter compensation factor for that light. Usually expensive ones are pretty spot on but it can just make needing to think about it in your head easier if you can just make the meter do it.

[@Narsuitus]

@4:49 If red filters make green objects look darker, why do dark red infrared filters make green objects look lighter?

[@mkshffr4936]

Would love to see you play with blue and green filters on ortho.

[@BadFlashes]

That be cooooo

[@AdamWilkoszarski]

It would be great to see this video in color to see the filter effect...

[@BadFlashes]

Maybe that will be the very special directors director cut. 🤪

[@AdamWilkoszarski]

@@BadFlashes haha!

[@saml9100]

That mamiya 7 is making me question if it's worth eating rice for a month just to afford it! Really liking you're recent cinestill images 🙌🏻

[@BadFlashes]

Thanks yo! ... honestly... who needs food 😂

Man, if you spend as much money on food each month as a Mamiya 7 costs, you are spending way too much on food.

[@saml9100]

@ I have a family lol

[@BadFlashes]

That’s legit, family’s definitely need to eat! 😂

[@dxps26]

Most modern film is so forgiving in latitude, especially HP5, that a stop or two over or under isn't really a big deal anymore. There's a lot you can do later in development to control the negative, such as a low-and-slow developing cycle with a more dilute developer to really bring some of the highlight detail out and tame the contrast, and finally if you have a scanning workflow - a medium contrast negative can be pushed around post-scan like a wussy kid in school (just like Jason was, I assume)

[@BadFlashes]

For sure for sure! Today agree! ☺️

[@dxps26]

@@BadFlashes Jason was a wuss confirmed as canon.

[@Kuesa]

I heard you can get great results with the red filter and orthochromatic film!

[@BadFlashes]

Ohhh yeah that’s going on my list

[@mp3remix171]

This feels like a troll tho, orthochromatic film isnt sensitive to the reds in the color spectrum so what affect would it bring out? Just googled it and the first post says it gives no effect haha

[@mp3remix171]

@@BadFlashes don’t haha check my comment below but basically, the orthochromatic film doesn’t respond to the reds in the spectrum, that’s why it’s safe under safe-lights in dark room and stuff!

[@BadFlashes]

Dope dope dope...that totally makes sense to me :)

[@Kuesa]

haha yes if you use a red filter on ortho film you get a blank shot, it's a joke in the film meme community

[@nelxonmiranda]

Pedal pushers?

[@BadFlashes]

😅😂😂😂

[@AeromaticXD]

the red filter is great!

[@BadFlashes]

It is definitely fun fun fun ☺️

[@Adrian-wd4rn]

Green filters are EXCELLENT with fog. If you're at a foggy beach, or in the woods with fog, smack on the green filter and watch it give you an almost etherial and powerful image. Also, if you're shooting black and white, seriously look into getting an enlarger. MANY balck and white photos were heavily manipulated on enlargers, and there's so much an enlarger can do with a negative that digital simply can't. Those deep black skies and super puffy white clouds with insane contrast? but still retaining a ton of detail? Yep, you can do that with an enlarger. Hardder to do with a digital file.

[@BadFlashes]

Oh great tip!!!! Love that! Also I do have an enlarger and have been trying/ testing / experimenting with it…. Love it so far :)

[@tomislavmiletic_]

Green filter makes the film kinda orthochromatic, what makes him best suited to shoot portraits and maybe architecture...

[@BadFlashes]

I definitely want to shoot more with those filters! I should just take it out soon 😊

[@David_GarciaMontero]

hahaha justice league... 4:3 and extreme slow motion, the recipe

[@BadFlashes]

Maybe I should make an episode like Snyder hahaha

[@David_GarciaMontero]

@@BadFlashes do it! Haha #releasethebadflashescut

[@BadFlashes]

Hahahahah

[@doing2onyou423]

and it's a better film than the Joss Whedon bullshit version that came out in 2017.

[@David_GarciaMontero]

@@doing2onyou423 yes, that's for sure

[@eliagard3437]

I'm probably the only person who's not a fan of HP5. What's the least grainy B&W film you know?

[@pollux4447]

Micro films are the least grainiest, but delta films, Pan f, fp4 are good to.

[@eliagard3437]

@@pollux4447 Micro films?

[@pollux4447]

Yeap, Look up adox microfilm for exampel

[@pollux4447]

These where the films used for copying like paper and stuff

[@BadFlashes]

You know, I feel ya ... I beefier Kodak back and white films. Like Tri-X and Tmax. Those are supposed to be clean AF

[@ibnalfreak]

Red filter gang.

[@BadFlashes]

I’ll join!!!!!

[@thatdeafguyuk]

If you wanna go completely bat shit combine a deep red with a polarizing filter with a nicely fluffy cloudy sky!

[@BadFlashes]

I love going crazy!!!!!!! That might happen!!!!

[@GigiDAmico]

I gave up at 2 minutes! Sorry

[@BadFlashes]

well .... to be fair to you .... this is not my best video ... id try another haha

[@GigiDAmico]

@@BadFlashes you should work on cabaret! here you are wasting your time! and our... :D all the best

[@eladbari]

Conclusion: Shoot without filters and just adjust in post

[@BadFlashes]

Haha well that’s true too 🤣

[@orion7741]

that does not work in the darkroom..... just use filters and save yourself a bunch of time later.

[@Adrian-wd4rn]

@@orion7741 If you have a dark room and rely on filters to do the work for you, then you're not using the darkroom effectively.