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Making a refinement through dodging

Making a refinement through dodging

From the course: Black-and-White Darkroom: Printing Techniques

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Making a refinement through dodging

- I want to introduce you to another exposure-related edit, this one is called dodging, but before we get to that, let me show you a couple of things I've done with our workprint. Once it was dry, I went in and marked on it, first, it's working title, "Hot Spring 1". Then, made notes of the enlarger height, which was at 10 inches, and the crop was at 7x7 inches. This enables me to go back to this if I want to. I also made note of the base exposure. Seven seconds with the #00, and seven seconds with the #5 filter. Keep in mind that exposure information will change any time you start a new printing session. This gives you a ballpark starting place, but when you start with fresh developer, there will always be a slight difference in the development. So, keep in mind that these numbers that we're writing aren't set in stone. They're references to help you get back to where you want to be. Now that we've got that kind of in mind, this is, I guess, your metadata section on your workprint…

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