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    How to achieve skin almost without sructure

    Hello,

    Some times the skin structure/texture is not necessary from photographers point of view. How to achieve skin without texture using LF? To make something like that:


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    Re: How to achieve skin almost without sructure

    Massive overdevelopment, or printing with a #5 filter, or both.

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    Re: How to achieve skin almost without sructure

    Soft focus, flat light, a subject with smooth skin, careful dodging of areas that do show texture.

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    Re: How to achieve skin almost without sructure

    Are you using a darkroom or Photoshop? I've never done it but if I was trying to do it in a darkroom I'd underexpose (for the blacks), massively overdevelop (for the skin tone and the grain) using a film lwith a high shoulder, print with a high contrast paper/filter, then spend the rest of the night dodging and burning. Or you could make a couple duplicate negatives using lith film if possible and if it's still around. When you make a series of dupes, especially with lith film, you end up with a very high contrast negative. A third possibility would be to make a paper "negative" in camera, which also produces a high contrast look. But you can do a better job much quicker with much less drudge work if you use Photoshop. I'd guess that 99.9% of the time when you see photographs like this lately it's done in Photoshop.
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    Re: How to achieve skin almost without sructure

    While there are various methods that can be used to achieve "milk white" skin with little or no texture, the conventional method would be to "place" the usual Zone 6.5 skin at Zone 7.5, or even 8, by opening up a stop (or a stop and a half). You may, or may not, want to adjust development accordingly.

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    Re: How to achieve skin almost without sructure

    Thanks to everyone. You fed we with a lot of good ideas. I'm using darkroom, so idea with overdeveloping and placing skin to Zone 7-8 seems workable for me.

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    I would also suggest using a pyro developer. It gives a smoother testure.

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    Re: How to achieve skin almost without sructure

    Red Filter

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    Re: How to achieve skin almost without sructure

    Quote Originally Posted by domenico Foschi View Post
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    Domenico,

    Good idea too, but the lips will suffer.

    Regards.

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    Re: How to achieve skin almost without sructure

    Well, if you completely control the situation, you could use a non-red lipstick, or an appropriate tone of lipstick

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