Show me your latest darkroom prints

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.
 
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.
 
Here are mine..
 

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

Just kidding, John! :D

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.
 
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.

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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.
 
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