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Q: Whats's your favorite beauty lens/filter/light?

I love this thread and thank you all for contributing your expertise to it!

Please add your own favorite beauty lenses/ favorite beauty light/ beauty filtration tips.

Thanks!
 
Oh also, lighting with tungsten, and using a 1/2 CTB lens filter, then balancing for the proper color through white balance gives a nice warm rich color to skin as well.

In my experience anyway... Some people disagree.
 
Timur Civan said:
Oh also, lighting with tungsten, and using a 1/2 CTB lens filter, then balancing for the proper color through white balance gives a nice warm rich color to skin as well.

In my experience anyway... Some people disagree.
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Hi Timur,

With which skin hues, do you find this technique most helpful, please/ Any exmples/

Thank you very much

Fury
 
Beauty Lens: Zeiss/Contax 85mm f/1.4
Beautify Filter: Screw On 77mm UV Filter....and "Vaseline" in different forms/shapes/designs
Beauty Light: Golden Hour w/ reflector
 
Savva Svet said:
Beauty Lens: Zeiss/Contax 85mm f/1.4
Beautify Filter: Screw On 77mm UV Filter....and "Vaseline" in different forms/shapes/designs
Beauty Light: Golden Hour w/ reflector
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Very cool, Savva!

(in film school we were told that a touch of "nose grease" applied to a clear filter was one of the best ways to diffuse skin flaws.)
 
BRANDON JAMESON said:
Very cool, Savva!

(in film school we were told that a touch of "nose grease" applied to a clear filter was one of the best ways to diffuse skin flaws.)
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Haha...I can see a line of sweaty guys as the DP touches their noses to adjust the "intensity of the filter"
 
Nick Fury said:
Hi Timur,

With which skin hues, do you find this technique most helpful, please/ Any exmples/

Thank you very much

Fury
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read on: http://timurcivan.blogspot.com/2013/06/extracting-best-color-from-your-red.html

pretty much everyone. In studying skintones with the objective of figuring out what works best, i found that skin tone is incredibly varied. The basic theory of the CTB glass filter/80c filter is that it balances the light BEFORE it reaches the chip, but with a warm starting point. (tungsten) In essence you are warping the light, changing reality, to make it fall in line with the way the sensor wants to capture it. Thereby, enhancing skin tone through accuracy, but from this starting point you can do things like use unbleached muslin to further enhance the color.
 
Lenses:
- 58mm f/2 Helios M42 manual SLR, old Russian lens, flares like crazy and I LOVE it for photographing women. Shot about 50% of my most recent film with it. Best thing: cost less than 30 pounds.
- 70-210 f/4 Canon zoom lens, of early EF mount vintage. I like this much more than modern lenses again for its propensity for beautiful flares.
- 85mm f/1.8 Canon prime. Not the L-series, which I think is a little too sharp for beauty.
For stills, I love my digital Hasselblad: the 80mm lens is an absolute peach on that

Lights:
- Golden hour daylight, possibly supplemented with a Lastolite sunfire reflector. Best of all up near the Arctic circle, where you get golden six hours! Spain is warmer, which the models like, but Sweden and Norway are more dramatic and the light last longer (which I like!)

NOT safe for work example: (contains nudity and mild consensual bondage):
http://www.restrainedelegance.com/preview/video/videokatyarielloveshacksunset1_720p.mp4


- Again for stills, paired 30 cm x 150 cm strip softboxes on a Hensel Porty 1200 with a 7" reflector and honeycomb behind as a hairlight. I've never had the budget to get anything that compares to that set-up for video, sadly... I can carry enough light to overpower daylight in a rucksack!

Filters: I used to use a mild warmup with a tiny smear of Olive oil around the edge, back in the days of film! I'm very interested in the filter discussion on this thread as a result- definitely going to get hold of a mild Hollywood Black Magic to try out!

Cheers, Hywel.
 
Savva Svet said:
Gotta get myself some Digital Diffusion filters!
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They look pretty spectacular to me too.

I also love the look in the video of the Tiffin Glimmerglass TM1...But,I cant find out more about it (what does TM stand for?) or where to purchase one.

Can anyone point me in the direction of an answer on that one?

Thanks for keeping this thread empowering and incredibly useful!
 
BRANDON JAMESON said:
They look pretty spectacular to me too.

I also love the look in the video of the Tiffin Glimmerglass TM1...But,I cant find out more about it (what does TM stand for?) or where to purchase one.

Can anyone point me in the direction of an answer on that one?

Thanks for keeping this thread empowering and incredibly useful!
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According to the article, TM stands for "Trade Mark"
 
i dont think it matters...this shot leica R no filtration and simple fashion lamp...key to fashion in my opinion is casting...ps. no correction yet right out of camera
 

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sergio arguello said:
i dont think it matters...this shot leica R no filtration and simple fashion lamp...key to fashion in my opinion is casting...ps. no correction yet right out of camera
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Gorgeous work, Sergio.

Can you explain a bit more about your set-up?

What was the lamp and where was it placed?

Which Leica R lens did you use?

Thank you!
 
David W. Jones said:
Old Cooke 75mm Speed Panchro.
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David, May I ask if you neutralize the heavy golden tones of most 75mm speed panchros with on-set filtration or in post-color correct?

Our set of Speed Panchros have 2 lenses with pretty profound "golden hour" results and the most obvious is the 75mm.
 
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