The highlights in a scene are 2 whole stops brighter than the next brightest tones. How would you expose and develop such that the highlights are visible and everything else is pure black?
Why would I want to do this? Basically at a certain time of day sunlight filters through the gaps in some buildings and leaves a highlighted area on a brickwork wall in a pleasing shape. I want to capture only the brickwork textured shapes and leave the rest of the image black.
My thinking is to meter the highlights and then underexpose by 2 stops so they are on zone 3 and then develop with N+2
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