What would any of you suggest to give pale people the warm sunlit look in a studio setting? I really like the look of bob crist's shots in pop photo magazine and he seems to be able to get that look under any conditio

-- winston Endall (winstonchaos@hotmail.com), May 01, 2000

Answers

Gel your light with a 1/4 or 1/2 CTO... t

-- tom meyer (twm@mindspring.com), May 02, 2000.

Or use a softbox with gold inserts (like the Photoflex models). You can also use a warm film like Kodak's E100.

-- John Kantor (jkantor@mindspring.com), May 02, 2000.

Try a KR3, KR6, or KR12 filter. This is a common trick in fashion work to get the "sunset" look. I'd probably go for gelling the lights first, that way you do not contaminate the entire scene/color balance as you would with a filter on the lens.

-- Robert Anderson (rapfoto@uswest.net), May 02, 2000.

reply to How do i get orangey warm skin tones in studio?

The usual way of many profs is to put some orange gel (Tom mentioned suitable ones) in one of the lights - the one which gives mosly light for the face. Main light and/or fill lights may be white, so (maybe white) clothing does not get off-color light.

A good trick is also to use 'hot' flood lights for face fill, if the main lights sre strobes. 3200K photofloods alone give a quite warm tone with daylight film, but used just as fill they can give that charming warm skin tone.....

Sakari

-- Sakari Makela (sakari.makela@koulut.vantaa.fi), May 03, 2000.

Robert's point is good, let (or make) the background go cool and a warm (gelled) main light will really make the subject seperate... t

-- tom meyer (twm@mindspring.com), May 07, 2000.