Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/06/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On 6/14/04 3:08 PM, "Jim Shulman" <jshul@comcast.net> wrote: > Attended the Devon (PA) horse show a few weeks ago. This is one of the > country's leading horse shows, attracting enthusiasts, hangers-on, assorted > toffs and their sycophants. > > http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2444426&size=lg > Leica M3, Efke 100, Yellow Filter, 3.5 Red Scale Elmar. > > Jim Shulman > Bryn Mawr, PA > > Sorry but I'd have guessed by the skin tones that you'd used a yellow filter. It almost looks like you used an 81a or b filter though. A yellow filter is not a good all around filter. It's called by Kodak a "cloud" filter. But not a "people" filter. It bleaches out their coloration so they look all pasty. Like a cross between Tiny Tim and the Pillsbury Doughboy. Maybe not that bad. That would be an orange. Perhaps a grapefruit. The only filters which don?t make people look bad are yellow-green or green filters. They make people look great not like they are from Venus as you might think. Their coloring is accentuated which is rarely bad unless they have heaps of zits or are a red head with lots of freckles. (I think redheads come from spores from a tail of a comet but don?t spread that one around. A different comet than the one which brought the spores for the brunettes and the blonds. They came at different times. But their paths crossed) Red filters take all those freckles away but make people look like they are from Mars. White lips. Very spookey. Blue filters make them look like they are from Neptune. And steals all contrast from the neg making it barely printable even with #5. I don't use blue filters for nothin. Ansel uses them for making things look far far away. I just use a superwide for that. Mark Rabiner Photography Portland Oregon http://rabinergroup.com/