good advice, pinhole master. I do have a Pentax spotmeter, and usually expose for shadows and develop for highlights, but am not use to a brightness scale quite this massive!
My knee jerk reaction would just be to automatically reduce development to give a -2 negative. Of course, I realize this can have a globally debilitating effect on the rest of the contrast in the scene. I would think that maintaining the glow on the edges of the cactus would be very important in this scene, I guess, and let the rest of the brightness of the sunrise go into white (maybe hoping to burn a little back in later in the print, if it would "work").
I definately hope to get some "glowing cactus" images of my own, but am hoping not to destroy the effect by a gross mistake in exposure or in what development is needed. |