ortho is not sensitive to red, so lips and red roses will look black and skies will look ok since they are blue I think you are referring to Infrared ? ________________________________ From: Tim Daneliuk <tundra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Sat, February 12, 2011 9:52:46 PM Subject: [pure-silver] Ideas On How To Get Ortho-Like Skies I would love to duplicate the dark black skies one sees in images shot on the old ortho films. I have tried many filters (orange, red, tri-red), many films (TX, PX, TMX,BPF, FP4) and developers (D-76, HC-110, PMK, T-Max), and I never quite manage to get what I want. I even tried using Ilford's ortho film, but unless I'm doing something wrong in development (possible, since I only glanced at the data sheets), the stuff is so grainy as to be unusable. Ideas anyone? I shoot a great deal of winter snow and summer landscape stuff and would really love to have that black sky behind it all. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Daneliuk tundra@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx PGP Key: http://www.tundraware.com/PGP/ ============================================================================================================= To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there. ____________________________________________________________________________________ The fish are biting. Get more visitors on your site using Yahoo! Search Marketing. http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/arp/sponsoredsearch_v2.php