Originally Posted by
Doremus Scudder
Steven,
I wish you luck. I've found that there's no free lunch when it comes to contractions. Yes, you can use a number of techniques to get the negative contrast range to fit your chosen paper, but in situations like you describe, the result is often flat and muddy mid-tones.
I've gone the other way many times, intentionally making a too-contrasty negative and then taming it later with print manipulations - all to try and save the separation in the lower and mid-tones.
Do post your results here; I'm always interested in finding more tools to deal with extreme scenes.
Best,
Doremus
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