Greetings,
This is a follow-up posting to the recently resuscitated thread posted by MaryAnne in 2002 entitled, "Why do the contact prints look so good?"
http://www.largeformatphotography.in...ead.php?t=5742
A friend has just started making contact prints from his 8x10 B&W negatives using a bare bulb. I'm about to follow suit in the next short while.
Anyway, while having a cup of coffee one day, the discussion of burning and dodging came up with respects to contact prints. It's easy enough to understand how this would work with an enlarger and doing standard printing since you're projecting the image and you can see what you're doing. But, in the case of contact printing... it's hard to see the areas in the negative being burned or dodged.
So, how do most of you burn and dodge when making contact prints from your large format negatives using an overhead light source? What do you do to control light spill-over?
Thanks in advance for any input.
Cheers
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