040 Orange Filter 550. This already very powerful B+W 040 orange filter 550 darkens purple and blue very strongly, green strong and even yellow green a little. Landscape and architecture shots show an increased, almost "graphic" contrast, cloud sky can already be dramatic. Because the skin tones related to the filter colour are greatly brightened compared to plant green, this filter is often used in nude shots outdoors to increase contrast between lighter body and darker landscape. - Optimize grey tones for expressive images - Suitable for analogue and digital cameras - Made in Germany Tips Black and white photography Whether black and white shooting or colour image depends on artistic viewpoints. In black and white images often lack clarity because the colours stand out well in nature or in the colour image are hardly distinguishable as grey value, despite the brightness-true implementation. This can be counteracted with colour filters. If you want to reproduce the distance well, a black and white image with orange or red filter is most meaningful. Black and white shots with powerful colour filters produce very different images. The following list provides some clues: - Yellow filter: works without alienation, highlights clouds - Orange filter: similar effect to red filter, but not so hard contrast and less alienation effects. - Red filter: hard reproduction, strong alienation, strong clouds, good reproduction of the distance, even in haze.