[pure-silver] Re: portraits for a book

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From: "Koch, Gerald" <gkoch02@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 7:17 AM
Subject: [pure-silver] Re: portraits for a book


> Articles on portaiture usually recommend the use of a 
> green filter for male
> portraits not just "character" studies.  Tiffen suggests 
> the use of a #13 green
> filter for photographs made with tungsten illumination 
> particluarly male
> portraits.
>
> Since you will be using 4x5 then Tri-X is probably the 
> best choice since grain
> is no longer a factor for this larger format and you have 
> the advantage of this
> films characteristic curve.
>
> Jerry
>

    The reduction of red by the green filter will provide 
something of the effect of orthochromatic film. An X-1 or 
No.11 filter can also be used to obtain approximately 
visually correct tonal rendition of color values with most 
panchromatic films in tungsten light. Light green filters 
are also recommended for outdoor portraits where it is 
desired to darken the sky because they produce this effect 
without washing out skin tones as a Yellow filter often 
does. OTOH, a Yellow filter can be used to reduce the 
visibility of skin blemishes.

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

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