Mishka wrote: Paul, What I realized I had sorely missed was a color conversion filter, something like 80A. It was still sorta OK since I scanned the pictures afterwards and had a chance to fiddle quite a bit in Photoshop, but still, I really wish I had either the filter or tungsten film. Of course, I am assuming you are shooting color, right?
Mishka, I shoot only daylight-balanced color print film, and I neither own nor use color correcting filters. Ace Photo in Sterling, VA does an outstanding job at color correcting; "Forget filters; leave the color correcting to me," advises Mo.") I need the speed (ISO 1600) of daylight-balanced film. In any event, theater lighting is such an odd and unpredictable mixture, I'm not sure that tungsten film would be in my interest. For a classroom setting, it could...though I more commonly see fluorescent lighting. I like to tweak the digital scan in PhotoImpact anyway, cropping, enhancing or reducing contrast, and perhaps sharpening just a tad. In my digital touchups, I used to reduce saturation by 30 percent or more in an effort to make the people and their costumes look natural. But I'm coming to realize that recipients like their images a bit on the warm side; it reminds them of the theater milieu. Paul Franklin Stregevsky - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
