I've can't see that green does much of anything to skin tones... at
least in ACR. Using yellow, orange or red progressively blocks more and
more of the skylight except blue. They progressively darken the sky,
lighten the clouds and increase the contrast in B&W. If you're shooting
people under incandescent there's probably not a whole lot of green to
filter in the first place. Color cast is going to be predominantly
yellow-orange-red and those color filters will have a larger effect on
brightness and contrast.
Shoot in color and do your B&W conversion and filtration in PS. That
gives you many more options than with shooting film or applying
in-camera filtration. It makes it very easy to experiment since you can
redo the same image 1000 ways.
Chuck Norcutt
siddiq@xxxxxxx wrote:
> On Dec 23, 2008, at 9:46 AM, Ken Norton wrote:
>
>>> So, your E1 knows how to soften the "crow's feet" around the eyes of
>>> elderly women? :-)
>>>
>>
>> Orange filter, convert to B&W.
>>
>> :)
>
> OK, help me out there... been playing with filtered BW (in camera) for
> kicks. The "help" button on the D90 says Green for restrained skin
> tones, and caucasian skin looks horrible. Says Yellow for more
> contrast in sky (or something like that), and that yields the best
> looking portraits. Am I missing something? or am I photographing the
> wrong skin tones under the wrong lighting (incand. for the most part).
>
> /s
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