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How is this SD1m portrait photo shot ?

Started Feb 1, 2022 | Discussions thread
allineedislight Senior Member • Posts: 1,309
Re: How is this SD1m portrait photo shot ?
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You can do nice portraits with a Merrill sensor. Here is one from the DP2M:

https://www.magezinepublishing.com/equipment/images/equipment/DP2-Merrill-4038/highres/sigma-dp2-merrill-portrait-from-raw-SDIM0080_1352285530.jpg

taken from:

https://www.ephotozine.com/article/sigma-dp2-merrill-camera-review-19831

However, this requires that your models have perfect skin - young female models with makeup or children with clear skin.

Any imperfections, marks, freckles etc will show up with unforgiving detail..

Also with the Merrill it is absolutely crucial to get the colour right, otherwise the models with look a bit sick (greenish) or leathery (too yellow) or sunburnt (too red).

For example, for my DP2M starting with daylight white balance I need to dial in -2G Green (= +2M Magenta) to correct for the inherent slight green cast and then -4Y Yellow (i.e. +4M+4C) to remove the yellow cast. So in total +6M+4C adjustments. That is my current default with daylight WB and that gives a normal looking skin tone - not too yellow and not too red. On top of that I dial down sharpness to -1 and chroma noise reduction to the lowest level.

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