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interesting how much the clouds have contrast.... is that more due to the grade 3 filter or the caffenol? as I don't do optical printing (yet) I'm not familiar with all of the possible techniques. Thanks.

StoneNYC said:

interesting how much the clouds have contrast.... is that more due to the grade 3 filter or the caffenol? as I don't do optical printing (yet) I'm not familiar with all of the possible techniques. Thanks.

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No, actually I did a test strip on the people in the foreground and another one on the sky. Then I exposed the whole image for 10 seconds and after that I shielded the lower part of the image with my hand so the sky part got another 10 seconds. I think that's what my digital friends call dodge & burn... As a matter of fact, I'm pretty sure the caffenol lowers the contrast in general..

Good for you! In my opinion, Caffenol is a GREAT paper developer, though it takes some fine tuning for your individual use.