I read an account of creating "Moonrise Over Hernandez". He applied bleach
to the crosses with a fine-point sable brush. Dab, wait, judge, repeat. He
used every trick in the book.
> I was in a museum wandering around and stumbled into an exhibit of Ansel
> Adams prints. It was different from others I've seen in that it showed
> more than one print of several images. What it made apparent was how
> heavily Adams sometimes adjusted the original negative in the darkroom.
> I particularly remember a (relatively?) straight print of the famous
> graveyard in NM next to a larger finished print. The white crosses that
> fairly glow and define the image in the prints we all know are quite
> unremarkable in the straight print. It made me realize he was really an
> artist who created the vision he saw in his mind, not someone who simply
> recorded the scene in front of him.
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