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Making a selective burn adjustment to the photo

Making a selective burn adjustment to the photo

From the course: Black-and-White Darkroom: Printing Techniques

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Making a selective burn adjustment to the photo

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- Burning is essentially the opposite of dodging. When we dodged the image, we were reducing the exposure in an area to lighten it. When we burn, we want to increase the exposure in an area to darken it. As I mentioned when we looked at our last test with the dodge in place, I felt that we could've enhanced the image a little bit more if we added some more textural information to the white of the springs in the background. I want to do a very selective edit. I want to burn the shadow values only in that area, so this would be the equivalent of selecting "burn shadows". I feel if I burned midtones and highlights, that that whole mineral deposit that is so sparkling white in the background would just become a muddy, grey mass. What I want to do by burning the shadows is, the subtle details that aren't visible to the naked eye will actually start to appear as little, tiny bits of textural detail in that white slope of the mineral deposit. To do this, we're gonna start with the base…

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