Just shoot B&W and forget your problems. Better for portraits anyway.
Nathan Wajsman
Alicante, Spain
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YNWA
On Oct 5, 2010, at 4:17 PM, Ken Norton wrote:
> Skintones simply stink. Once I get the skin looking healthy, the rest of the
> colors in the image go to pot. Lighting that is perfect for the E-1 or
> Portra films causes nasty burned highlights. Shadows that normally remain
> neutral take on different colorcasts. It's not actually very far off, but
> I'm not used to this problem. I'm used to my E-1 files being essentially
> perfect right out of the camera. These I have to work for. Instead of a
> gentle tweak, these require wholesale adjustments.
>
> I sent off several raw files to other photographers who shoot other
> brands/models. What each one said was "this was normal". One guy told me
> that my lighting is all wrong and he immediately identified specific areas
> of adjustment I needed to make. Basically, I've gotten lazy and just been
> winging it just because I could!
>
> So, now I've got this portrait session which I'm stumped on. The baby pics
> are safe--those are just one type of skintone to correct, but the family
> shots (mother, father, 6mo old baby) are a disaster because all three have
> different skin characteristics. I'm at the point where I'll just do my basic
> editing on them and ship them off to Millers to color correct.
>
> Like I said--it's not off by far, but correcting it is beyond my skillset.
>
> The E-1 lives to see another day!
>
> AG
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