Postby Maris » 30 May 2017, 08:57
Thanks RoganJosh and Barry Kirsten. Placing the whites as high as possible on the tonal scale is a balancing act. In this photograph there is a lot of "print value IX", white tone but no detail, but I figured that since none of the "hot" blank areas are large they wouldn't read false to the eye. And the little black details are max density to make the whites pop more; the usual trickery.
Composition? Much thanks to the person who leaned the white stick against the tree trunk. I didn't (hand on heart) do it.