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RE: filmscanners: negative and skin tones
Sorry
to jump into the middle of a conversation ( which might mean that my reading of
your remarks is out of context and my response may therefore
inappropriate). Since I believe this has been a discussion of color images
and not black and white ones, I would respond that I do not know of any skin
tone filter in traditional photography. Color skin tones are made up of a
number of different colors and tonalities such that no single filter or filter
pack will usually work when shooting the film. Even in traditional color
negative photography, the adjustments are made later after the shooting in the
lab when printing. Unlike black and white photography where the use of
filters can lighten or darken different colors depending on the colors -
although even here one can make such corrections when only a few ( one or two)
colors are involved, in color photography filters add and subtract colors (
unless they are special effects filters, neutral density filters, polarizing
filters, or color temperature correction filters); they do not lighten or darken
the shades of different specific colors in the same way as b/w filters do
Even
if this were not the case, it is often easier and more practical to do the color
corrections after the fact digitally in Photoshop or traditionally when printing
when working with color..
why not handle it the way you did when shooting black and
white film? why not
revert to filters to lighten the skin tones, rather
than trying to correct
them later with photoshop?
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