Orange or yellow filters. They bring up brightness in skin tones, and add contrast to blue skies and green vegetation. Orange and yellow filters are available

Orange or yellow filters. They bring up brightness in skin tones, and add contrast to blue skies and green vegetation. Orange and yellow filters are available at many secondhand stores for a few bucks each, in common lens diameters. You can also just do the same effect in post-production if you shoot in colour digitally. I sincerely advise you to just shoot b&w film for b&w photos, but these days there are good software conversions - "film simulations", available in lots of different apps if you prefer to shoot digitally. It's a mature technology already, there aren't really any "bad options" you need to avoid.