[pure-silver] Re: How do I increase local contrast in my shadows when printing?
- From: DarkroomMagic <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: PureSilverNew <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 23:53:08 +0200
Stopping print development prematurely will make the print softer, not
harder. Apparently, the two areas in question are too close in density,
consequently, the overexposure will make little difference. Bleaching does
help but might be hard to do in high density areas. Anyway, it's worth a
try.
Regards
Ralph W. Lambrecht
http://www.darkroomagic.com
On 2005-09-18 22:50, "Laurence Cuffe" <Laurence.Cuffe@xxxxxx> wrote:
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>
> ----- 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
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