Whether you are an analogue or a digital photographer you will probably know about and use filters with your camera. I loved a red filter with black and white photography to produce high contrast skies. I'm also partial to a vignette and a neutral density filter, and I've used polarising filters for decades. But sometimes I think weather is the best filter of all. Shooting against the light (contre jour) gives great silhouettes and contrast. Snow gives strong emphasis to line in a scene and fog mutes colour and gives the effect of layers of different shades. Haze offers some of the same qualities as fog, but less so. This photograph of Tower Bridge taken from London Bridge has muted colours and objects become less definite with distance. The distant towers of Canary Wharf are depicted almost as if painted by a water colourist.
photo © T. Boughen Camera: Lumix FZ1000 2
