Untitled, photo by jenny murray.

Jenny says that this photo was taken using a yellow filter (an actual one, not Photoshop).

I say that I apologize on the behalf of Charter for the lateness of today’s post. My office is quite tidy after the 8 hour outage though!

No word on what the pilot says.

Ken Rockwell has some interesting things to say about the use of filters, yellow and otherwise. Here’s a little excerpt:

The more you learn about photography the more you’ll also learn that artificial filters and manipulation are required to make a natural looking image. Ansel Adams realized that human perception and the photographic processes are quite different. Therefore one needs to use a lot of filtration, manipulation and burning and dodging to compensate for the human eye and brain’s image processing to create an image on paper that looks natural. (You can read this in his books.) This is why most snapshots don’t look like the original scene. Artificial processes and image manipulation are needed to make a photograph look natural.

Armchair photographers like to play a stupid game that prohibits anything creative and requires they just play forensic photographers blindly Xeroxing nature without filters. I only judge people on the final image, not the process.

Something to consider for sure.