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How is this SD1m portrait photo shot ?

Started Feb 1, 2022 | Discussions thread
saltydogstudios
saltydogstudios Senior Member • Posts: 2,451
Nothing wrong with Foveon Skin
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Here are some photos I took with Foveon cameras

Quattro

https://www.instagram.com/p/BmOHZdoD3RK/ (slightly weird skin tones but I love the way the dp3 Quattro renders her hrands)

Merrill (the first two are unedited)

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bk_0VOKDSq6/ (you can see the color bleeding issue where the camera pulled the gold from the skin into the relatively unsaturated shadows of the teeth)

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bk_yOqtDron/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BPgz--gAW5O/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BO1HybAA49p/

https://www.instagram.com/p/wMhQ6rRfWg/

High resolution versions of a couple of the above photos here:

https://medium.com/ice-cream-geometry/an-ode-to-the-sigma-merrill-506dd0864169

If I want to smooth Foveon skin a bit, I export at 2x resolution and apply some skin smoothing plugin in Photoshop - the extra resolution helps the algorithm and skin looks great. But mostly I'm happy with Foveon skin - skin tones and sharpness - even if somewhat over sharpened by Sigma's algorithms.

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Ricoh GR Digital Sigma DP2s Sigma DP2 Merrill Sigma DP3 Merrill Sigma dp3 Quattro +13 more
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