Response to Paper and Developer - Establishing my style

Thanks to all that responded. Yes I agree that I am in too deep for my years of experience and maybe I should just have fun. Still I want to make photograghs not just take pictures and to that end I feel a working knowledge of film/exposure/developer is essential.

My subjects tend to be contrasty either in subject matter or light and so I compress the zones. My goal would be to print what I felt when I exposed not just what the paper and developer will deliver. I suppose therein lies the magic.

I read somewhere that film exposes to 12 stops however paper only sees 5. Is this true? If so, are there any papers that see more than 5?

Thanks again to all, Joe Lacy

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