Actually, I didn't do anything I wouldn't/couldn't have with B&W film. In film terms, I'd have used something like Tri-X, ideally 2 1/4" square format, then printed it by hand on a very hard (grade 5 or more) paper.
In film terms, dodging is done with a piece of card on the end of a wire that you wobble around in the relevant place while the paper is being exposed by the enlarger -- it results in part of the frame appearing lighter than normal. Burning is kind-of the opposite -- you use a large card with a hole in it to overexpose part of a print (i.e. make it darker).
Doing this digitally is essentially the same, but much quicker, cheaper and less messy. The Fuji is strictly speaking not as good as my old Bronica, but given my penchant for seriously push-processed B&W the resolution really isn't a problem. THe results I'm getting seem pretty good so far, but as I'm only really getting back into doing this stuff for the first time in about 15 years, I have a fair bit to catch up on!
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In film terms, dodging is done with a piece of card on the end of a wire that you wobble around in the relevant place while the paper is being exposed by the enlarger -- it results in part of the frame appearing lighter than normal. Burning is kind-of the opposite -- you use a large card with a hole in it to overexpose part of a print (i.e. make it darker).
Doing this digitally is essentially the same, but much quicker, cheaper and less messy. The Fuji is strictly speaking not as good as my old Bronica, but given my penchant for seriously push-processed B&W the resolution really isn't a problem. THe results I'm getting seem pretty good so far, but as I'm only really getting back into doing this stuff for the first time in about 15 years, I have a fair bit to catch up on!