[pure-silver] Re: Skin tones


----- Original Message ----- From: "BOB KISS" <bobkiss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2006 5:28 AM
Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Skin tones


DEAR PETER,
I take my lead from the old Hollywood photographers who used
ortho film and got GREAT skin tones. I either use a green filter on a
faster film like T-max 400 or I use Plus X which has a relatively lower red
sensitivity. It appears that high red sensitivity makes skin appear much
lighter where as lower red sensitivity gives skin some nice tone.
Just my 2 cents.
CHEERS!
BOB

Why do you think Hollywood still photographers used ortho? Ortho is suitable for character portraits of men where one wants to exagerate skin texture but its not very flattering for women. Before sound most movies were photographed on ortho film and much makup was used to compensate. Don't judge the relative look of ortho vs: pan from early sound movies, first of all the lighting was severely compromised by the requirement for quiet lighting equipment and also early pan film was not wonderful.

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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles, CA, USA
dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 

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