Portrait . ndgradation from the strongest high lights to the deepestshadows. In order to improve the printing quality ofeither underexposed or overexposed negatives, as statedpreviously, it is necessary to reduce the high lights tobalance with the shadows. Many negatives that wouldbe considered worthless, and often discarded, could beremodeled and doctored to produce perfect prints. Notonly is it necessary to reduce, but in many cases to in-tensify, in order to produce proper gradation from highlight to shadows. The proper time to do this reducing, intensifying—or in other words, balancing up
Portrait . ndgradation from the strongest high lights to the deepestshadows. In order to improve the printing quality ofeither underexposed or overexposed negatives, as statedpreviously, it is necessary to reduce the high lights tobalance with the shadows. Many negatives that wouldbe considered worthless, and often discarded, could beremodeled and doctored to produce perfect prints. Notonly is it necessary to reduce, but in many cases to in-tensify, in order to produce proper gradation from highlight to shadows. The proper time to do this reducing, intensifying—or in other words, balancing up of your negatives, is immediately when you take them from the fixing proof should show as much detail as the finishedpicture. I never allow a negative to leave the dark roomuntil it is as near perfect as I am able to make it. A very 8 i I few minutes time spent in the dark room in local re-duction or intensifying saves many hours of hard workin the printing room, and the results are so much more. satisfactory, especially in the making of enlargements,that you cannot help but notice the effect upon yourtrade. Proofs will be nearer perfect, thus eliminating 9 t r unnecessary comment or excuses. There are several reducing agents, in all of whichthe action is practically the same. I use ferricyanide orred prussiate of potassium and hypo. I take my regularfixing bath, to which I add red prussiate of potassium froma saturated solution. With this, however, care is neces-sary in eliminating stains. The negative should bethoroughly saturated with hypo, or in other words, thefixing bath. Also, running water should be handy, asafter applying reducer it is necessary to rinse the negativein order to avoid streaks or stains. A few years ago when the better class of photograph-ers realized that Cyko paper was to be the properprinting medium, I was able to make a thorough studyof the kind of negative that would allow the best re-sults. I kept a close watch on my negatives and those
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