RE: filmscanners: negative and skin tones

[TonySleep@halftone.co.uk (Tony Sleep)]

On Tue, 3 Apr 2001 18:46:19 -0500  Laurie Solomon (laurie@advancenet.net) 
wrote:

>  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.

Well, what you are supposed to do is to filter the light to the correct 
colour temp for the film, and then everything takes care of itself.

Nice theory :) Colour neg and PS work better for me.

Regards 

Tony Sleep
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