Black and White

Part 3 Colour
Project: Black and White
Exercise 1: Colours into tones in black-and-white
Aim: Show how colour filters affect tones of different colours in black and white images.

Original

No Filter

Yellow filter

This appears to be the most moderate of the 4 filters I used. The yellow pepper is considerably lighter than the other two whereas the blue background is the darkest of the four colours. The Green pepper is almost unaffected and the the Red is a little lighter than with no filter

Green filter

This filter is similar overall to the Yellow, but it has the opposite effect on the Red pepper as it is darkened considerably. The Green and Yellow pepper's (and the Blue background) are almost the same shade and seem to all remain a neutral Grey tone.

Blue filter

The Blue filter has significantly altered all four colours and is very different from the other filter's I used. The Blue background is much lighter than the previous filters and all 3 pepper's have been darkened to almost the same shade. The lightest colour (Yellow) has been turned to the darkest shade of Grey whereas one of the darkest colours (Blue) has been made the lightest.

Red filter

This filter (followed by Blue) has the most dramatic effect out of all the ones I used. The Red and Yellow pepper's have been lightened considerably and the Green pepper is the only colour to have remained as a mid-tone  The Blue and Red filters seem to be complete opposites in the effects the have on different colours as the Blue filter's darkest colours are the Red's lightest and Red's darkest are Blue's lightest.

This exercise has been very useful to see how the different colours react to each other and it's interesting to see how their effects can be linked to their places on colour wheel. With each coloured filter, it's own colour was always lightened and in most cases, so was the colours next to them (in the wheel). For example: The Green filter lightened the Green pepper and also the Yellow one; and the Red filter lightened the Yellow pepper as well.
In general, I found that the filter will lighten it's own colour while darkening the colours opposite or 1/3  across from it on the colour wheel.