shawn_stupidpost Posted February 25, 2000 Share Posted February 25, 2000 I just started shooting colour seriously, after playing with it off and on for the last couple of years. <p> I shot 3 models two nights ago at a bar, with my two metz lights and really cool, pastel clothing. The make up artist I used, while he did a great job, did nothing like I asked him (do whatever you want, I said, but use a pastel palatte). He used dark colours for everything (crimson lipstick and dark eye gunk); I was short on time, so I said to hell with it I'll shoot anyway. I was using Pro 100 film, and the first thing that entered my head was take an incident reading and open up 1 stop to place the make-up values a little higher in the scale. I am having the film processed normally. What should I expect? More importantly, when would you purposely re-place certain values if you are not putting them in their 'appropriate' zones, with colour negative and, more importantly, positive films; i.e., should I have taken a straight incident reading, and corrected in the print with underexposure and high contrast paper at the printing stage? <p> Thanks all. <p> shawn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jkantor Posted February 26, 2000 Share Posted February 26, 2000 I don't think you are going to be able to fix this even if you spent a lot of time and effort retouching digitally. A lighter palette of makeup is applied a lot differently - which is probably why he didn't (couldn't) do it. You'd have better luck, digitally increasing the saturation of the outfits to match the makeup. <p> What you _should_ have done is get the makeup artist to do what you asked. (I watch while they are doing it in order to keep them on the right track.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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