"Expose for shadows" with Leica MP?

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2 hours ago, eawriter said:

I appreciate your advice. I'm definitely learning by experience, but I'm trying to speed up the process by learning from others' experience rather than through lengthy trial-and-error experimenting on my part. I should also add that although I've only recently started shooting film (again), I'm a very experienced digital photographer and did shoot and develop film when I was in college, long ago. The main reason I'm shooting film is that I prefer the look of silver gelatin prints to inkjet prints. I have the use of a community darkroom, and have had a half-dozen printing sessions. Although I've yet to produce a print I'm really happy with, I'm getting closer. 

In my experience, exposing for the shadows is only necessary in 20%? of the situations. And it is immediately obvious when it's needed too. I agree with @pgk that learning from others is a pitfall, at least when wet printing is your final goal. Your enlarger plays a major role in how the negatives should be and nobody can tell you that in advance. With scanning you've got more leeway to make something out of a bad negative.