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Old 6th April 2014, 07:11 AM
Richard Gould Richard Gould is offline
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Hi Jake and welcome to Fadu, as regards filters, others have described well what they do, I regard an orange as a standard filter for landscapes when the sky is great, that is when a lot of clouds are around, and would say it is pretty well always fixed to my lens when out walking, As regards blank skys, if there are clouds then a film will record them even without a filter, a filter just helps to emphasise them, but if the sky is just blue it will record as white, and no amount of filtering will change that, and the only thing you can do is to burn in the sky to give it some tone.
With regards to your printing times, Are you using multigrade filters, are you printing very small, say 5/4, even then,3 seconds seems very short even for a small print, so more information on that please and we should be able to help you
Richard
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