>>3753930>a romantic zoomer who believes that the legends of yesteryear all spent time in the darkroom obsessively dodging and burning their own printsDoing your own darkroom work was the exception, not the rule.
Why do you think this image has notes drawn all over it, dullard? They're instructions for the lab guy, because he wasn't developing his own images. That eats up too much shooting time.
The idea that everyone did their own post in the past is an early 2000s meme designed to sell you an Adobe Photoshop license so you could polish your turds. Film photographers of yore, by and large, picked a film stock that achieved the aesthetic they were aiming for, and worked within its constraints. They did not routinely engage in heavy darkroom processes themselves.
Dodging and burning wasn't even a common process in color work until the mid 2000s when it became part of the arsenal of ways to overly edit a models skin.
