Ok well, the first one was grade 2, 33 secs and 30 secs of burning on the sky. The second one is grade 2.5 45 secs on the sky then 33 secs all over then 25 secs on the lower grass and 25 secs on the tree to the right.
Now the 3rd one is grade 2.5 for 60 secs on the sky and top part of trees then grade 3.5 for 33 secs all over then burning in the trees and grass for another 45 secs.
And yes it is lower Hardingstone, i didn't think anyone would know!
Thanks for that. Hardingstone isn't that far from me and there a nice short circular walk there which I enjoy and I thought that I recognised it.
Back to what you did. In summary it sounds as if you dodged everything below the top part of the trees while you gave the sky 60 sec at G2.5. Then you gave the whole print 33secs at G3.5 so the sky had a total of 93 secs of which 60 was G2.5 and 33 was G3.5. I may have got this wrong as the sky in version 3 looks much as it did in version 2. I had assumed that the sky was given only G2.5 in version 3 and not an additional exposure of 33 secs at G3.5
Finally you shaded the sky and burned in the trees and grass at G3.5 for an additional 45 secs
So the sky had two different exposures at two different grades of G2.5 and G3.5. The houses section had one exposure of 33 secs at one grade G3.5 and the grass and trees were additionally burned in for 45 secs at G3.5, giving them about 1,5 times the exposure for the house.
The next point is somewhat irrelevant to your print dodging and burning as it has worked well for you but I was surprised at two things.
1. The total exposure time required unless this was a very big print.
2. The relatively subtle effect of what seem to quite long burns
Just as a matter of interest what aperture did you use and what was the print size?
My Durst M605 with only a 75W bulb would turn my prints almost black at these exposures even at 8x10
Thanks
pentaxuser