Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/12/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - --------------F4CA2B4D0F22DE5A5E5636B6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Charles wrote: > I can't speak for the photog you mentioned, but I have noticed a > substantial difference when photographing people in B&W under artificial > light that has been gelled one way or the other. Warm light tends to > portray skin tones better, cold light tends to enhance skin problems. > This can be used for effect when you test it all and understand what's > going on. I have never fully explored the concept, but I do know that the > color of the light on the subject as well as the color that ultimately > reaches the film has a great impact on the final B&W print. Good points. This would be a good thing to explore with Scala film to control contrast and tone, since you don't have the print making stage. . Also forground and background control. Got me thinkin'. donal - -- Donal Philby San Diego www.donalphilby.com - --------------F4CA2B4D0F22DE5A5E5636B6 Content-Type: text/x-vcard; charset=us-ascii; name="donalphilby.vcf" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: Card for Donal Philby Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="donalphilby.vcf" begin:vcard n:Philby;Donal x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:www.donalphilby.com adr:;;;;San Diego;; version:2.1 email;internet:donalphilby@earthlink.net fn:Donal Philby end:vcard - --------------F4CA2B4D0F22DE5A5E5636B6--