Practice question · True or false
Dodging is carried out during the base exposure and burning after it.
Hints
- Ask what each operation is doing to the total exposure of an area.
- You cannot withhold light from an exposure that has already finished.
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True
Why
True, and the timing follows from the arithmetic. Withholding light has to happen while the light is falling, so dodging belongs inside the base exposure; adding light can happen at any point, and doing it afterwards lets the printer judge how much is needed against a print already exposed.
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