September 2006
Intermediate to advanced
256 pages
7h 41m
English
There is a time-honored rule that summarizes the key to consistently better negative quality: Expose for the shadows and develop for the highlights. What this means is that exposure and development can each independently control a different aspect of the negative's contrast. Let's look at this process in detail.
Your choice of exposure for a given negative (the f/stop and shutter speed that you decide to use) should be based on the amount of detail you want in the darker areas of your finished print. If you want the shadow areas of your print to appear well lit and detailed, give the film more exposure; in other words, either use a wider aperture or a slower shutter speed. ...
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