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If you are shooting in flat lighting and you don't want the print to be flat, you can overdevelop to add contrast.
You can do this with or without also underexposing, depending on where you want objects to end up tonally. If I just want to give a little "pop" to a picture taken in very flat light, I usually don't underexpose. I just overdevelop. If I want a dramatic contrast increase and I do not care if shadows and low tones get pretty dark, then I will underexpose and overdevelop.
If you are underexposing the whole roll the same way in the same light, you can just rerate the film so that you can read your meter directly. Rate the film lower to add exposure, and higher to reduce it.
But don't rerate and change your exposure from what the meter says. They will both do the same thing, so if you do both, you are doubling up on whatever exposure change you want to make.
If you are shooting in flat lighting and you don't want the print to be flat, you can overdevelop to add contrast.
You can do this with or without also underexposing, depending on where you want objects to end up tonally. If I just want to give a little "pop" to a picture taken in very flat light, I usually don't underexpose. I just overdevelop. If I want a dramatic contrast increase and I do not care if shadows and low tones get pretty dark, then I will underexpose and overdevelop.
If you are underexposing the whole roll the same way in the same light, you can just rerate the film so that you can read your meter directly. Rate the film lower to add exposure, and higher to reduce it.
But don't rerate and change your exposure from what the meter says. They will both do the same thing, so if you do both, you are doubling up on whatever exposure change you want to make.
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