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Message: <blockquote data-quote="STM" data-source="post: 215308" data-attributes="member: 12827">Ansel Adams said it was always harder to make a technically perfect B&W print than a technically perfect color one and who knew more about B&W than he did?As for filters, what you start off with will depend entirely on what you want to shoot. Red filters are useful for increasing contrast in blues, like darkening a blue sky, and also increase contrast overall. Yellow tend to render black and white closer in values to what our eyes see. Green filters render skin tones (caucasian) more naturally. Orange works about half way between red and yellow. Yellow green does essentially NOTHING for skies. I am not sure where you heard or read that. If you want to increase contrast for skies and clouds, you use a RED filter</blockquote>