ABSTRACT
Amateur photographers can use a hole in a piece of black cardboard to give the extra exposure, taking care to keep the card moving during exposure to blur the edges of the effect. With very big exhibition prints some workers will ‘edge burn’ the print to make the viewer concentrate more on the centre of the print. Dodging and burning in the darkroom has to be done during the exposure. To lighten an area of the print the exposure is reduced or ‘held back’ by casting a shadow over that part of the print during the main exposure. It receives less light and therefore reproduces lighter. Dodgers are like lollipops on a stick. The best are home-made and have a thin wire shaft that purposely ‘wobbles’ to smooth the effect. Blu-Tack, torn pieces of card and aluminium foil work far better than geometric shapes bought in packs.
