What is tone drop out?

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What is tone drop out?

Answer 1

The only way I have heard this term used was in darkroom work when you would deliberately over or underexpose a print. Deliberately underexposing will drop out the shadows giving a darker picture, sometimes it set a distinct mood. Over exposing would drop out the lighter tones and give more detail to the shadow, giving an effect similar to a high key shot if done judiciously. I imagine the same thing could be done easily in a digital darkroom ( e.g. photoshop ) but I have not played with any of this

The other way you did tone masking in the darkroom was to physically make a mask of a material that would block a single tonal range or color and sandwich that mask with the negative when you make a color print. It can change the tones of the whole photo or you could use it only on a small area of the photography. I know this can be done in photoshop

Here is a little on it in film

http://books.google.com/books?id=Z92UjOE...