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Cheers guys!
Didn't summit this trip. No time, but one day I will!
Was auditioning in an Emergency Medicine program in WA... just there for a month.
Yellow filters are a good general-purpose outdoor filter. They darken blue skies and give more definition to clouds, they tend to lighten foliage, and they also give realistic skin tones. They tend to increase contrast overall. Back in the day with different emulsions, many said that the only way to get realistic tones from BW was with a yellow or yellow-green filter... and some folks still feel this way. Yellow filters also only cost you one stop of light. Red or orange filters tend to give more dramatic effects (dark or black skies, porcelain skin tones, etc) but are less "realistic" and also cost 2-3 stops of light, which begins to be troublesome with a lower ISO film, smallish apertures, and hand-holding.
I use orange and red filters for some of my landscape stuff, especially with the 4x5... but on the leica yellow is about as far as I usually go.
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