Want smooth skin in your black and white portraits? Use ILFORD XP-2 400 film. XP-2 400 is available in 120 and 35mm sizes. The overlapping dye clouds, instead of the usual silver molecules, cause minor skin imperfections to disappear, including some wrinkles (character lines). XP-2 is developed in C-41 color chemistry. If you are photographing a person with a ruddy complexion, with black and white film, use a green filter.

ORVIL STOKES is publisher of PHOTOWORK NEWSLETTER, now in its tenth year. (317 E Winter Ave, Danville IL 61832; Voice/Fax: 1 217 442-3075.) $10 per year. Canada $11. He also conducts the annual Orvil Stokes Workshop.

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