Show me your latest darkroom prints

[jean-bob]

All on Ilford MGIV FB Paper 11x14

 

[blackwave]

Forgive the terrible quality. It's a cell phone photo of a print that isn't yet dry and is stuck on the back of a tray. All the tones are squished up and highlights are blown, but not in the real print 🙁 It gets the idea across, anyway!

4x5 with barrel Petzval, fiber print, 11x14". Shot in October, printed tonight (11/21.)

 

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This has been done with a Perkeo II with Color Skopar. The image has low quality because the print has been photographed wit iPhone.

 

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This shot has been done with a Welta Weltur with a Xenar 105 3,8. Also here the print has been photographed with my iPhone.

 

[StevenJohn]

Portra 160 RA4 on FCAII

RA4 by smeitner300, on Flickr

 

[jean-bob]

Colour prints are impressive. Beautiful !













Some prints I have done these past few days. All on 8x10 except the first two on 11x14. Ilford MGIV FB paper mat.

 

[geetist]

Here are mine..

 

[Johnmcd]

Now framed for Grandma's Xmas gift 🙂

Cheers - John

 

[DavidKKHansen]

Now framed for Grandma's Xmas gift 🙂

Cheers - John

Brilliant, what a wonderful gift to give!! 🙂

 

[Johnmcd]

Brilliant, what a wonderful gift to give!! 🙂

I wonder if she will appreciate the extra effort of using fiber over resin coated? 🙂

 

[shadowfox]

I wonder if she will appreciate the extra effort of using fiber over resin coated? 🙂

Only if she believed that FB is actually still superior to RC.

Just kidding, John! 😀

 

[Johnmcd]

Only if she believed that FB is actually still superior to RC.

Just kidding, John! 😀

I'm still trying to work out the difference myself 🙂

Do I just imagine it? It feels beautiful when wet and has a nice weight to it but what a bugger to dry flat. I have to put it in my home made 'rack' for 24 hours.

Not sure if I could tell the difference when framed in a blinded test.

 

[Johnmcd]

Brilliant, what a wonderful gift to give!! 🙂

The beauty of a print that you can touch and see all of the time. Not 'trapped' on a computer or pad. I'm sure she'll love it 🙂

 

[Fotohuis]

but what a bugger to dry flat

When drying on a glass window with aquarel tape it is super flat because the paper would like to shrink when drying but it is not possible.

When drying on a hot press you have to estimate the right moment to release when it is just dry and then put it on the edge of a desk, roll it on the two opposite sides of the corners and put it for a few hours on a big column of heavy books or a press. Then it is also flat.

Version 1.

Version 2.

 

[Fotohuis]

The result and my contribution to this thread:

Merry X-mas everybody! And the best for 2015.

 

[StevenJohn]

I finally got a print with which I'm mostly pleased. It is very easy for the shadows to go an ugly red-brown.



New Orleans by smeitner300, on Flickr

 

[shadowfox]

I'm still trying to work out the difference myself 🙂

Do I just imagine it? It feels beautiful when wet and has a nice weight to it but what a bugger to dry flat. I have to put it in my home made 'rack' for 24 hours.

Not sure if I could tell the difference when framed in a blinded test.

John,

I am struggling to find the difference also, especially after they are dry as you said, the only reason I can tell is because the FB prints are still "wavy" and the RC is perfectly flat.

My favorite is warm RC papers.
I've given up on FB and concentrate on making good RC prints.

 

[shadowfox]

I finally got a print with which I'm mostly pleased. It is very easy for the shadows to go an ugly red-brown.



New Orleans by smeitner300, on Flickr

That is just beautiful!

 

[StevenJohn]

Thanks Will.

 

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Here is my latest darkroom work.