{"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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":708,"href":"https:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions\/708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historic.camera\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}