[pure-silver] Re: Skin & Film, was Film Having A "Resurgence"
- From: Eric Nelson <emanmb@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 14:49:38 -0700 (PDT)
I could see that happening via development but with the hard dramatic sunlight,
all those bumps and so on will cast shadows. Discoloration wasn't too bad.
Ack,
it's hard to talk about this stuff!
It reminds me of a gig w/a shooter I used to print for in town who sent me some
medium format he'd shot of a baby. I processed & proofed it, & eventually made
some prints for him.
There were these bumps on the baby's nose etc. that, from what I understand,
show up on some newborns and he didn't notice it when he shot it, guessing by
his reaction. He started blaming the makeup artist for not covering them up.
I
told him it's texture and unless she used silly putty, she wouldn't have been
able to cover that! He was a piece of work.
The turn around time is what really did film in professionally and is why few
pros are seen around here anymore. =( Agencies want it now and that's that. I
had one pro client shoot film a couple years back because he sold his client on
the idea and liked me too I guess. I know that his client was waiting
impatiently for the proofs and once the proofs were in their hands, they still
didn't have anything on their screens they could work with.
e
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From: BOB KISS <bobkiss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Fri, October 1, 2010 3:41:01 PM
Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Skin & Film, was Film Having A "Resurgence"
DEAR ERIC,
When I want smooth skin I don’t use either PMK or Pyrocat HD
because
the HD created by the edge effects in either of those developers will
exaggerate
any skin defects. A dev that doesn’t boost edge effects, hence definition,
might be better.
Though I shoot all my personal and fine art work on film, I simply
cannot compete for commercial jobs shooting film. Clients just won’t pay for
the film & processing any more and expect the rapid completion of work possible
with digital. That said, I often have to clean up skin when doing any kind of
close-up or portrait. It takes significant work selecting the skin areas,
deselecting the eyebrows, eyes & lashes, lips & mouth, etc on a separate layer.
Then I soften the layer containing only the skin and blend it proportionally
with the background layer to smooth the skin texture without loosing the sense
of sharpness given by those deselected areas.
Before anyone jumps on me about discussing digital image
processing,
I do the same thing with images originated on film which I scan. Clients want
digital files regardless of how the image is captured. So, though not “pure
silver”, definitely hybrid.
CHEERS!
BOB
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