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Dodging and burning

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20: 181: 85:(ratio of light to dark) than can be captured by film, which in turn is greater than can be reproduced in prints. Compressing this high dynamic range into a print either requires uniformly decreasing contrast (making tones closer together) or carefully printing different parts of an image differently so that each retains the maximum contrast – in this latter dodging and burning is a key tool. 153: 143:
By using completely opaque material as a cover over the preferred area for dodging or burning, absolutely no light will pass through and as a result, an outline of the material may be visible on the print. One way to prevent obvious cover-up lines is to slightly shake the burning material over the
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may be used, as preferred, to cover and/or obscure the desired area for burning or dodging. One may use a transparency with text, designs, patterns, a stencil, or a completely opaque material shaped according to the desired area of burning/dodging.
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lens and the photographic paper in such a way as to block light from the portion of the scene to be lightened. Since the technique is used with a negative-to-positive process, reducing the amount of light results in a lighter image.
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and his humanitarian work in French Equatorial Africa. The image took 5 days to produce, in order to reproduce the tonal range of the scene, which ranges from a bright lamp (relative to the scene) to dark shadow.
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elevated dodging and burning to an art form. Many of his famous prints were manipulated in the darkroom with these two techniques. Adams wrote a comprehensive book on producing prints called
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covered area while it is being exposed. Another way to prevent obvious cover-up lines is to use slightly less opaque material closer to the outline to produce a more subtle, faded effect.
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A key application of dodging and burning is to improve contrast (tonal reproduction) in film print-making; today this is better known as
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lens and the photographic paper in such a way as to allow light to fall only on the portion of the scene to be darkened.
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They can also be used in less subtle ways, as in the stenciled lettering shown at the top of this article.
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decreases the exposure for areas of the print that the photographer wishes to be lighter, while
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Limitations of the Medium: Compensation and accentuation – The Contrast is Limited
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programs have "dodge" and "burn" tools that mimic the effect on digital images.
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An example of dodge & burn effects applied to a digital photograph
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increases the exposure to areas of the print that should be darker.
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for a technique used during the printing process to manipulate the
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To burn-in a print, the print is first given normal
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Index

An example of dodge & burn effects applied to a digital photograph
photography
exposure
photographic print
opacity
image editing
tone mapping
high-dynamic-range imaging
dynamic range
W. Eugene Smith
photo essay
Albert Schweitzer
Ansel Adams
Adams 1995
Zone System
Darkroom manipulation

darkroom
exposure
enlarger

darkroom
enlarger
Blend modes
Darkroom
Vignetting
"Kodak Consumer Education: Basic Darkroom Techniques, Meeting 6"
the original
"Schweitzer with lamp at his desk by W EugeneSmith"
4.209: The Art and Science of Depiction

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