[pure-silver] Re: Skin & Film, was Film Having A "Resurgence"
- From: Snoopy <snoopy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2010 10:35:21 +0200
The next big challenge for the world is to learn how to slow down...and
do it too...
Love,
Snoopy
On 10/01/2010 11:49 PM, Eric Nelson wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> 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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