Response to Best way to bring out contrast??

If it were a cloudy day, you will want to push process the film by about 10%. This will boost the highlights and give a stronger gradation If it were a sunny day, the processing time was probably not enough causing a "pulled effect" there by having the highlights mushy causing the lower contrast. When film is processed, the shadows develop to a point and then the highlights keep being processed until the stop bath. With this in mind, a push on a cloudy day will give a punchier negative but a push on a sunny day can render your highlights bullet proof and unprintable. Hope this helps. Cheers, Scott

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