Hmm - based on my experience, I stand by my point, i.e.
"selective" blurring, with "reasonable ease". I didn't say it's
impossible, just very difficult! I guess I just need
practice, but I don't find it easy to do convincingly. Have
only tried once though, to be honest.
Hmm... now I am going to have to find a lot more time to spend in the
darkroom to see if it's really as easy as you say it is! You have
inspired
me.
On 19 Aug 2009, at 7:01 PM, Ken Norton wrote:
> I disagree about he selective blurring. You can selectively "soften"
> areas
> through use of things like a screen, plastic-wrap, sandwich baggy or
> just a
> really dusty piece of glass. When combined with a mask or through a
> dodge/burn process you can work an area of an image to blur or
> soften the
> edginess of an image without screwing up the grain.
>
> This is actually one of the prime benefits of split-grade printing--
> you can
> diffuse the hard-grade exposure (shadows and low-midtones) or the
> soft-grade
> exposure (highlights, high-midtones). If you diffuse the hard
> exposure (V),
> it softens the grain, if you diffuse the soft exposure (00) it
> softens the
> image but leaves the grain intact.
>
> Typically, when you diffuse during the printing process, you end up
> darkening the highlight regions that neighbor the dark regions. If
> you
> diffuse when photographing, you lighten the dark regions that
> neighbor the
> light regions.
>
> AG
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