I’ve always been fascinated by how much a print technician can do to bring out dynamic range in prints from film through basic “dodge & burn” darkroom techniques. The collaboration between a printer who usually has never been to the locations photographed but can interpret what the photographer saw is a creative process many photographers depended on. Now with the digital process a photographer can experiment with dynamic range in images that bridge to the surreal. This image is tweaked with an exaggerated Shadow/Highlight & Contrast layers in Photoshop. There is software that will take images to the creative extremes like in this blog site:
