 Welcome to episode five From the balcony. I hope everybody's doing well Staying safe being healthy. Got a beautiful spring day here Wish I was out taking pictures Let's get to today's video Today, we're revisiting the yellow filter More specifically, we'll be talking about exposure with the yellow filter Now back in September. I had done a video test of Comparing images made with a yellow filter and without a yellow filter Just to kind of satisfy my curiosity to see if there was really any benefit to me going with the yellow filter If it was worth the hassle screwing on When I was out taking the pictures and since I made that video, which I'll leave a link above or below or you know how it works Since I made that video I've since had questions on well, how did you expose for the yellow filter? Which is a really good question and I regret not actually addressing that When making the video So the camera I used while making that video was an older Pintak 645 And it has a built-in light meter, but I really never really trusted it that much and so I used a handheld incident meter and the Exposure I used was the same on both the Filter shot and the non-filtered shot, which doesn't really make a whole lot of sense now that I Now that I think about it But before I made the video I had done a few tests I had looked online and I was getting kind of mixed mixed messages The baseline was everybody was saying oh just just open up a stop. That's that's what you do with the yellow filter but I went out in my front yard and pointed the camera at different things and My light meter wasn't telling me this tell me that it this was back in September that there was a lot of more browns and yellows and stuff in the grass and Trees and that kind of thing There are areas I point my camera at and the meter reading Didn't change at all when I put the yellow filter on And then I find if I pointed it like to this to the sky It would it would go to like a full stop And then there'd be times where I pointed something in to be a third of a stop compensation just just depending on How much I guess blue light was being reflected back to the camera so I decided not to use any compensation on In the video for my my test to see the difference my thinking was I Tend to overexpose my negatives any way a little bit So I felt like I was probably covered and if anything I'd just be a little under exposed and That proved to be the case all my negatives were had plenty of information for scanning Shortly after making that video. I I Got a new camera So I really didn't get gave much more thought to how I was going to compensate for Using yellow filter. So I basically would take them the meter reading From the manure camera the Pentax 645 in I found that it's like meter was very accurate I just meter With through the yellow filter and my results have been very consistent So after that video, I'd really never had much Reason to rethink the the idea of how much exposure compensation was needed for yellow filter So should you be opening a full stop on your? images if you're metering by hand That's probably a pretty safe way to go But if you have a camera that allows you to meter through it You might just go ahead and do it that way unless you've tried it and it doesn't work Well, then by all means don't I just want to tell you what works for me and Really the only way to do is to try it out for yourself But the yellow filter can be a pretty useful filter For a lot of different subjects. So how are you exposing for yellow filter? Are you going with the full stop compensation? Are you? metering through the filter and just going with what the meter says I'd like to hear your approach and if it's where how it's working for you So thanks for joining me here out in the balcony And until next time thanks for coming along for the ride