Using Filters To Darken The Sky In Black And White Film Photography

Have you wondered how people get those dark skies in their b&w photographs. Filters on the shooting lens make a huge difference because they lighten their own colours but darken the opposite, so a blue sky will go almost black if you shoot with a red filter. But how much is too much, should you use a yellow, orange or red. And what's the exposure change because of the filter factor for each of these.
If you're shooting film, like Ilford Delta 100, and you want those dark skies like Ansel Adams often had, you need to know a few things about using filters when you shoot the photo.
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Rob Skeoch is a career photographer, working for five newspapers and wire services before joining the team at Major League Baseball for 17 seasons and the NFL for 14 seasons. Then he was a national manager for the camera group at Sony North America before going back to shooting.
Now he shoots for gallery shows around the world, mostly street work and portraits made with a Rollei twin lens and Hasselblad. For 35mm shooting he uses a Nikon F3 and a couple M-mount Leica cameras and shoots mostly Ilford film.
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