Superia Reala reddish skin tones

[gene_dy]

I am shooting using an EOS 30V and 50mm f1.8 gear set in program AE

1/60s @ f 2.8 setting with flash indoors. When the film was developed

using a Fuji Frontier lab and a Fuji Crystal Archive paper the skin

tones were reddish compared to the actual skin tone of my subject. What

possible solution can i do to the reduce then reddish bias of the

superia reala film. would setting the Superia Reala at ISO 80 reduce

the reddish cast on the peoples skin?

[john_shriver]

Have them reprint it right, or get a better lab. Color balance is fundamentally a matter of printing with color negative film.

 

If you want really natural color in color negative film, consider the "Professional" portrait films (Kodak Portra, Fuji NPS/NPH). The consumer films are all at least a little more colorful and contrasty than reality. (Some absurdly so.)

[scott_eaton]

Use NPH, or switch labs.

[bill_tuthill]

Unless due to batch variation, Superia Reala does not have

a reddish cast to skin tones. Are there any numbers printed on

back of the Crystal Archive paper, and if so what do they say?

[bill_knippenberg1]

Gene,

I've had the same experience several times and in each case I

had them reprint the photos. The problem seemed to come

down one or two of the operators who seemed to be more

concerned about processing as many orders as possible rather

then putting out a quality product. I changed labs.

After the manager was released and a few other personnel

changes I started using the lab again. The service is much,

much better as is their product.

Bill

[steve_castle3]

I'd have to agree with the others. I use Reala constantly for portraits and landscape, among other films, and it does not have a reddish skin tone. It is possible your film is heat affected, although that normally gives a magenta cast. Even the samples on Fuji's web site and advertising materials show great skin tones.

[gene_dy]

well i am living in philippines and the temperature here is about 27 degrees at nightime and about 32 degrees during daytime and sometimes could reach up to 34. Our local fuji frontier machine is the Fuji Frontier 340. What does the numbers of at the back of Fuji Crystal Archive paper mean ?

[joe_hernandez]

Gene-

Some of the numbers are twin check numbers, while some are the corrections done to the print, if you need more specifics i can help you a bit, but it also depends on the format of back printing they are using, the Frontiers offer about 6 different formats of displaying the information on the back

[gene_dy]

it says

 

< No. 21 > 781

 

and the other pic

 

< No. 8 > 794

[bill_tuthill]

Presumably "No. 21" and "No. 8" are the frame numbers. Color and

density correction numbers come in groups of four, YMC then density,

and the letter "N" represents unchanged. Given that your prints have

only three numbers, I'm baffled what they could indicate. I doubt

this means Yellow+7 Magenta+8 Cyan+1 although it's possible.

 

Do you refrigerate your film? If not you should.

[kosmoskatten]

Hi Gene,

the Reala is a very accurate film. The lab is at fault, but without knowing their equipment I can't help you further.

 

Altering ISO does not change color accuracy (within certain limits).

 

The info on the back does not refer to color adjustment, it is simply <neg no> and possibly print order no. Color adjustment info is not printed by all labs. In our lab you can decrypt the info to find out color and density adjustments.

 

Also Reala, has "natural" contrast which simply means it is not contrast enhanced like many other amateur films. This is why I like and use it.If you have a fairly sharp lens and shoot in harsh light you do not want the consumer grade films, the portrait films are somewhat lower in contrast and work better under these conditions but can be a bit flat indull light with anything else but decent optics.

 

 

Kind regards Henrik, Sweden