[pure-silver] Re: Skin tones

On 27/08/06, EJ Neilsen <ej@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 

  A lower red also helps to even out the blotchiness that some skin types
have. I don't try for "a" skin tone/type but rather shoot and develop based
on what that skin needs to say. Gritty old codger would probably not get an
infra red, very smooth skin, but rather a 35mm tri x / delta 400 with
ordinal. Smooth baby butt skin maybe even the dreaded T400CN type film with
a light red filter on light. For average shooting I like Delta 100 in
Ilfotec HC.

Eric Neilsen Photography 


Hi Eric,
thank you for that advice, especially since my wife and I had our first
child only a few months ago.  I rather like the Ilford equivalent of the
T400CN (XP2) for a variety of reasons (one being that it is designed
specifically to be printed to B&W paper).  So tell me why you dread the
chromogenic films ?   And what do you mean when you say "light red filter on
light"?

regards
Peter

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