geekcop wrote:
How did you get the flesh tones to be so neutral with Ektar?
Nice photo!
Thanks!
I actually didn't have much trouble with skin tones out of this roll, but rather the intense amount of blue in the midtones. I shot mostly in open shade, so I suppose that's to be expected given Ektar's blue sensitivity.
For this image, I brought it into Photoshop from NLP with the flattest, least saturated file I could get. With that, the biggest color balance correction was shifting midtones towards yellow, and then I also pulled down blues and cyans with a hue/saturation layer to get things looking mostly neutral. After that it was all exposure and contrast tweaks.
edit, yeah, 35 Series E. I'm ashamed to say that I couldn't tell if it was that or the 55 f/1.2 stopped down a bit, but the out of focus deck was just kind enough to sit still for a moment to let me double check
