Spent most of the day in the darkroom working on split contrast/grading. Once you get the hang of it its actually easier than just dodging and burning at the same settings.
Worked on producing one of my prints of Edward from the bridge match last week. The lighting conditions on the day were quite extreme, Edward was sat with his back to a huge window with bright sunlight flooding his back, whilst deeper into the room it was quite shadowed.
This created highly contrasted negs and so although I had dabbled at doing split grading on the places brief, John went into it a bit more indepth.
It basically involves doing a test strip for the highlights on a low grade, and one for the shadows on a high grade. The best way to do it is also to work at the same f number but change grade and exposure.
Below are some scans of the negs from the afternoon with OAK. I shot on Med Format and DSLR hence similar images of Betty.
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