Doug,
Thanks for clarifying that. You know, in shooting stock work for so many years I've always used chrome. I guess I will go back to chrome for my model shoots. The loss I was talking about is in the saturation of the image when made into a print from the chrome (i.e., sent to the lab to have a print made). I just got two rolls of Kodak Portra film back from a shoot last Sunday evening and personally I think they suck. None of the effects I desired came out as I had envisioned them and so I'm going to go back into the studio with the same model and reshoot them with chrome and see how that works out. My scanner is a Nikon Coolscan LS2000 and I'm not really pleased with the scan results. The pictures come out very washed out. I figure that it's probably me not having the settings right. The time involved in customizing each scan is a pain in the keester as well. I guess I need to find a scanner guru to walk me through this and see what I'm doing wrong.
I am frustrated by the fact that I'm not getting the beautiful results of so many of you in the forum and perhaps my choice of film is a contributing factor, along with my lack of experience in glamour photography. I'm sorry to say that more than 50% of my shots are what I would consider very poor. I do have a 4x5 view camera and perhaps I'll try a few shots with that as well. I'm very familiar with the quality of prints made from 4x5 negatives and chromes but have never tried it with a model before. First time for everything. I'm leaning more toward a 6x7, like the Mamiya RB67 or RZ67 for my model photography though because the 4x5 is a bit too much for my liking right now. Right now I'm just shooting a 35mm Nikon.
Once again, thanks for your great input! I look forward to learning much more from you all. This site has been a Godsend for me for learning about this genre' of photography. Take care and have a wonderful weekend!
Mike
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