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Old 11-09-2007, 12:16 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Here's a suggestion you would only find on Apug. It may work pretty well with this negative, so if you are up for a bit of an adventure, read on.

Print a full sheet striped by 1/2 stop increment test exposure using your Grade 5 filter, and a piece of opaque mat board. Never mind the lack of highlights, just find the exposure that puts your blackest blacks where you want them..

Expose a full sheet at that exposure. Then without moving the paper make another striped test print using your 00. Somewhere in this print the baby will be perfect.

Make a print, exposing the paper with the exposures you have determined using both filter grades.
(you will be exposing the paper twice, once with the 5 and once with the 00). Burn in the corner when you print the soft exposure. Dry it down, check it out, and alter future exposures to taste.
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Last edited by JBrunner; 11-09-2007 at 01:56 PM. Reason: Tryng to be less cryptic.
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