Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/10/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Anthony Atkielski wrote: > > From: D Khong <dkhong@pacific.net.sg> > Sent: Sunday, October 17, 1999 18:14 > Subject: Re: [Leica] PORTRAIT LENS: Summicron, Elmar, Elmarit? > > > While the buffs on one side of the shutter curtain would > > love to have the priviledge of having the sharpest lens > > that money can buy, their subjects on the other side would > > squirm at seeing their every blemish, pock mark, > > zit and what have you recorded on film for posterity. > > Blur it when you expose the prints, or scan it and apply a light blur in > Photoshop. Indeed, in Photoshop you can do a great deal to eliminate zits and > other imperfections--magazines do it all the time. > > -- Anthony My remedy has been to not do tight head shots of those with bad skin; do them head and shoulders or waist up. Commercially speaking promo-wise this had gotten to be more the style anyway. Also I blast' em, over expose 'em. And keep a hard light as close to the lens as possible. Or when I print the negs lighten faces so they fall off white as much as possible. It's called "salon" printing I think. Mark Rabiner