After finally completing a good part of my film testing, I'm starting to determine what I have to do to push/pull HP5+ (my main film). Adams said in 'The Negative' that 'modern' day films (1985ish, from the publication date of the book) can really only be pushed and pulled one zone - anything after that is questionable.(posted 8431 days ago)Does this still hold today? Reason I ask is that I was shooting some early morning shots yesterday at Lake O'Hara (if anyone is near the Alberta/BC border off the #1, try and get on the bus to make it to the lake - it's amazing), and I had a 9 zone difference between some shadow detail and snow on the high peaks in the sunlight. I would have liked to pull the film two zones, but didn't think that would work - I pulled a single zone, and got a little bit of detail, but not as much as I would like. Even had I been able to pull two zones, I still wouldn't have got the detail I wanted, but it would have been better.
Opinions please!