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Response to "creamy" skin tones?

from Ed Buffaloe (edb@unblinkingeye.com)
Harvey's 777 is known for its rendering of skin tones. See Fred De Van's article Remembering 777. I should note that 777 is as toxic as PMK and considerably more finicky.

My experience is that rendering of skin tone has a great deal to do with the quality of light, perhaps more so than film and developer combination: see this photograph (T-Max 400 - EI 400 - developed in PMK) and this one (T-Max 100 - EI 80 - PMK), both taken in late afternoon sun. I wish all the shots taken those two days had come out as well.

(posted 8125 days ago)

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