..Often times you will have a negative with relatively good contrast. You say "Then thats it!" Sorry, good contrast is only half of a good print. Once you get into more advanced printing, you will need to manipulate light and dark areas of the image to create a better overall print.

Burning as they call it, is the technique of covering the entire print with cardboard or some type of board, that has a scalable hole. This hole is where light shines through to expose the paper.

Dodging is the opposite. Dodging is a tool that uncovers the entire image except for a small area that remains unexposed.

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