----- Original Message ----- From: DarkroomMagic <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sunday, September 18, 2005 4:25 pm Subject: [pure-silver] Re: How do I increase local contrast in my shadows when printing? Well some sugestions, 1 over expose a lot and then pull the print before development is complete, It may help to dilute the developer here, If you do it right you may get the area of interest still on the steep part of the paper characteristic curve. 2 try a little local bleaching with some fericynide on a Q tip, 3 try lith delveloping, you might get some infectious development effect which would bring out the detail you want finaly, and this is of course absolute heresy, scan it in, adjust everyting to suit in photoshop, and then produce a digital negative from which to print. All the best LArry Cuffe ============================================================================================================= To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there.