[pure-silver] Re: Skin tones

DEAR RICHARD,
        I was not judging from early sound movie: I know from two sources that
Hollywood still photographers used ortho:
1) Murray's book where he discusses his techniques.
2) View Camera magazine ran an article some years ago about getting "that
Hollywood look" and stated that most of those photographers used ortho film
ESPECIALLY for women and that it gave them rich skin tones.  They cited
quite a few photographers.
3) We all know that the Hollywood stars  were heavily made up (I was a
beauty and fashion photog and directed some commercials in NYC and Europe
for two decades and I KNOW make-up) but there is nothing like green
sensitivity to smooth out skin.
These seem like reliable sources of information which correlate with my
experience ever since doing a test of skin tone
rendition as a function of filter color with Tri-X in the early 70s at RIT.
                CHEERS!
                        BOB

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Subject: [pure-silver] Re: Skin tones


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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.

---
Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles, CA, USA
dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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