Combing technique and creativity, this comprehensive review provides a detailed survey of filters and their applications, including tips on special-effect filters and on filter maintenance.

This guide to using filters in photography covers colour and black and white film. Beginners can learn what filters are available and how to use them successfully. More experienced photographers will find this book a source of true inspiration.

In this guide for the modern photographer, Ross Hoddinott explains when and how to use traditional hardware filters on your camera and how to achieve the same effects with software instead - as well as a wealth of other digital filter-effects that were impossible on film.

Today’s photographer is faced with an overwhelming number of choices when it comes to using digital-camera and computer-based filtration. Help is here in this comprehensive overview. It provides the lowdown on how digital cameras respond to traditional photographic filters and which filters are the most useful to own. Photoshop filters and third-party plug-ins are explored. Learn to improve color rendition, create traditional filter effects, and more in the computer. Filters have always been the most important tools in a photographer’s creative arsenal. Here is everything you need to know to master the use of photographic filters in the digital age.

The most comprehensive, updated resource on using optical and digital filters to create stunning effects Whether you're shooting nature, wedding, portrait, landscape, or any other type of photography, filters are indispensable tools for bringing images closer to the way our eyes actually perceived the scene in real life, as well as for creating unique mood and color effects. In Mastering Filters for Photography, author CHRIS WESTON covers everything you need to know about the range of optical and digital filter options, showing you how to use them to master contrast, intensity, color, tone, and for creative special effects. Filled with more than 300 images from master photographers, before-and-after shots, and step-by-step instructions, Mastering Filters for Photography is the one book you'll need to make filters an essential part of your photographic arsenal.

The definitive guide to filter use, beginning with a primer on the electromagnetic spectrum and light absorption, this guide covers all you need to know about filters, including the materials from which they are made, how specific filters work, how to compensate for a change in available light with an exposure adjustment and what result your choice of filter will have on your images. Including a chapter devoted to special effects filters, this book offers you the tools to take control of your photography. Includes 100 full-colour photos.