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Embarrassing! Thanks for catching it; I've made the change in the post now.

• jcr 16y ago
  Please don't feel bad about it... --I can't remember which one is my right side. ;) > such as “dodging” (whitening a portion of the image through intentional overexposure) Your corrected version is still incorrect. Dodging is "underexposing" to lighten the print image. Printing from film negatives is by far the oldest and hence most common interpretation. It's what most people have learned in photography lab classes because it is the easiest (and cheapest) process. When you are dodging, you are blocking light from reaching the photographic print paper and thereby making a portion of the print lighter. When you are burning, you are allowing more light to reach the photographic print paper by blocking everything except for the part you want darker. Dodging == make lighter (and/or less saturated) Burning == make darker (and/or more saturated) The irony is, when you are printing from film positives (think slide film) or to positive print paper (extremely rare), the definitions you originally posted are technically correct in practice but incorrect in common usage. Sorry for the nit-picking. For what it's worth, I still think it's a great post on a great blog.