{"id":707,"date":"2020-10-12T10:07:02","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T17:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/historic.camera\/?p=707"},"modified":"2020-10-12T10:07:02","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T17:07:02","slug":"low-contrast-developing-for-high-contrast-scenes-d-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historic.camera\/?p=707","title":{"rendered":"Low contrast developing for high contrast scenes: D-23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iconpublications.com\/photon\/july95\/d23.html\">D-23<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>One of the facets about analog photography that I really enjoy is the huge amount of ways to change or influence the look of an image.\u00a0 \u00a0Developing chemistry is such a huge topic and I&#8217;ve barely scratched the surface on this.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been reading about two bath processing that supposedly reduces contrast and holds shadow tones and highlights well.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a few reasons why it might be useful:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Low contrast negatives scan very well<\/li>\n<li>Low contrast negatives print to PT\/PD well<\/li>\n<li>Processing negatives for\u00a0 low contrast can result in more information kept in both shadows and highlights<\/li>\n<li>Processing a negative for lower contrast may make the grain less visible<\/li>\n<li>Possible recovery of exposure errors<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here&#8217;s some more articles on D-23 for reference<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Unblinking Eye Divided D-23 developer\" href=\"https:\/\/unblinkingeye.com\/Articles\/DD-23\/dd-23.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Unblinking Eye Divided D-23 developer<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Kenneth Lee - D-23 Developer Info\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kennethleegallery.com\/html\/tech\/D-23.php#TechnicalDiscussion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kenneth Lee &#8211; D-23 Technical discussion<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Source: D-23 One of the facets about analog photography that I really enjoy is the huge amount of ways to change or influence the look of an image.\u00a0 \u00a0Developing chemistry is such a huge topic and I&#8217;ve barely scratched the surface on this. I&#8217;ve been reading about two bath processing that supposedly reduces contrast and holds shadow tones and highlights well.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a few reasons why it might be useful: Low contrast negatives scan very well Low contrast negatives<a class=\"entry-more\" href=\"https:\/\/historic.camera\/?p=707\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 5.0.0.1 - 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