You could experiment with pre-flashing the film; that has a tendency to pull detail out of the shadows, but can kill your contrast if not handled with care.
Use a percentage of total exposure, (1/16th, 1/8th, 1/4); you can do this before or after the actual exposure.
Before, determine your exposure and shoot a sky or rock or whatever that is near by and uniform and without detail (massive defocusing helps here), at a percentage of total exposure THEN expose normally.
OR
Taking your carefully made notes on exposure, re-expose each sheet of film by shooting a white card in your darkroom using a percentage of the total exposure (you can convert an exposure to footcandles,divide by the percentage and then re expose based on that).
Of course, keep the exposure very low (no more than a 1/64th to 1/8 of the total exposure) until you determine what works best.
Of course, it may no twork for you either.
The other alternative is to do a "lightflex" type exposure, where you flash as you shoot, but that is a lot of work building a beam splitter and designing the perfectly uniform, variable light source that can be attached to your lens...
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