I would like to experiment with retouching negatives, and not having any easy source of red dye, I would like to start with just using number 2 pencil. I seem to remember reading that this was an accepted negative retouching technique. Is there any special touch to it? I haven't really read about retouching in the photo books that I have, such as the Ansel Adams trio. I guess he didn't do retouching?
I was looking through my dad's 60s-70s era auto mechanics book, and the pictures all have a clearly retouched look to them. My old motorcycle manuals also had heavily retouched B&W pictures of the mechanical parts. I didn't understand what it was that was different about these pictures until I recently realized that they must have been retouched for emphasis of the individual parts in the picture. Is it possible to do this kind of retouching with pencil?
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