Dodging and Burning in the Digital Darkroom
Dodging and burning are among the oldest and most time honored techniques in the traditional darkroom.
Burning In - Using additional light exposure during film development in order to darken selected areas of a photo.
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The term "burning in" comes from the darkroom. A darkroom master would "burn in" areas of a print by adding more light in highly restricted ways while exposing the print under the enlarger. Ansel Adams was a master of this.
You, also, have other creative controls available, such as cropping (composition), dodging, printing, or burning in, vignetting, diffusing, correcting image distortion, and so on.
The basic idea is very simple - you add exposure to those areas that you want darker (burning in) and hide light from the areas you want lighter (dodging). An assortment of cards/matboards works well. Your hands work even better.
A small amount of burning in of the riverbed would greatly improve the image. For this purpose, a 50% gray layer was added (labeled as the Burn layer) with the Blend mode set to Soft Light.
PRINTING-IN - Also known as "Burning in." - In a darkroom, providing extra exposure to an area of the print to make it darker, while blocking light from the rest of the print.
In addition to developing photos and printing, this can include darkroom processing and editing techniques, such as correcting color casts, burning in bright areas and adjusting the contrast.
Sure, contrast can be changed and levels adjusted, but start with an overexposed sky that is burnt out to pure white, and no amount of burning in or darkening will ever bring back the detail in the clouds.
If there’s a band playing or DJ you’ll be able to capture the background lights burning in. Yes, you’ll get some noise, but the results will be far more atmospheric. For example, this was shot at ISO 3200.
That's when you need to use the classic darkroom technique of dodging (lightening areas) and burning (darkening areas). Adams has a large section on dodging and burning in his book, The Print, ...
2,107 The method is used for adding gray tones or textural details to an area which contains such bright tones that texture does not show up, even with burning in.
past, Kodak Tri-X, is perhaps still the champ when it comes to photographing high-contrast scenes. The traditional "wet" darkroom, of course, extended the possibilities, but even without common techniques like "dodging" the shadows and "burning in" ...
I had taken the shot while she was sitting in front of a red wall at an abandoned resort hotel. In conversion, I darkened the background by turning down the red slider on a Black & White layer, and then further darkened it by burning in the wall.
Supernovae come in two types: Type I is caused by sudden nuclear burning in a white dwarf star. Type II is caused by the collapse of the core of a supermassive star at the end of its nuclear-burning life.
 See also: Burning, Image, Light, Photography, Photograph
  
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