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Photographic Reduction and Intensification
What if I used a meter and the darn thing broke on me when I was out making photographs? Then what would I do?
-Brett Weston
Most photographers have, at one time or another, created masterpieces of overor underexposure, overor underdevelopment, and sometimes both! Not all negatives can be saved, but the techniques of reduction and intensification may prove to be just the tonic to reclaim what, undoubtedly, would have been the best photograph ever created. Even if the negative is printable, reduction and intensification techniques can often improve slight miscalculations in exposure or development.
NEGATIVE REDUCTION
Negative reducers are used to subtract density from completely processed film ...
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