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Darkroom Print #1 of 2. Early Sunday morning.
Using the Ilford Darkroom Meter, I managed to get this out in one attempt.
Grade 0 at f5.6 enlarger lens aperture at 8 Seconds. Ditto for Grade 5.

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Darkroom Print #2 of 2. Early Sunday morning. Habana.

Using Ilford em10 meter, it gave a reading of f5.6 for grade 0 and f4 for grade 5. First attempt, the shadow details were there but the highlight detail (on the wall was missing), 2nd attempt was better at f4 for grade 0 but this 3rd attempt is acceptable as a working print. Grade 5 remained unchanged.

Leica M6ttl with 50f2 Summicron. Kodak Trix. 2012

grade 0: f2.8 enlarger aperture, 8s
grade 5: f4 enlarger aperture, 8s
 
Ray - nice work. I like the contrast on your shots with the models.

Here's one from me, I have been playing with Film Development as I have this stock of Forte Grade 2 paper and wanted to get contrasty images out of them.
I have been getting good results with Rodinal and based on Ned's suggestion, i now tried going with a more "violent" agitation scheme.
I developed the roll in R09 1:50 for 11 minutes at 20C and agitated 5 inversions every 30 seconds as opposed to the 3 inversions per minute which is what I was used to with Rodinal.

The end result turned out really very contrasty and I am on the verge of calling this a little overkill.

Ned if you are reading this, what do you think?

Below is a shot of my son and our Neighbour's daughter at our place over the weekend.

Film: Kodak Eastman DoubleX 5222 @400
Paper: Forte Bromofort BSP-4 Special 5x7
f16 8sec
dodging the girl's face for 3 seconds and the boys face in the shadow areas on the right hand side for 2 seconds.

Ben

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Cheers - John

Just curious John, have you thought about cutting the extra paper before you expose your prints and save those for test strips?

I am thinking about starting to print more 6x6 shots in the coming months and I think I am going to cut the end off and make the paper square even before I expose.

Ben
 
Ben, very nice textures to the pix. the contrasts and grain adds to the atmosphere. very well done.

Thank you Ray. I do like the print as well but am not sure I should continue destroying my negs just so I can use my existing paper stock.

I'll check more of my negatives later side by side on a light table and try to figure out what's best to do. Rodinal with heavy agitation blows the highlights if I keep it for the same time (11min). Perhaps if I agitate heavily, I need to reduce the dev time.

Ben
 
Nice going - any details you can share about Film / Paper and Enlarging details?

Good luck with your workshops!
Ben

Sure... That's Ilford FB classic glossy paper, 8x10, printed on a Beseler 45MXT enlarger with a 2 1/2 contrast filter and some burning on the left edge and bottom left corner. If I remember correctly (don't have my notes with me at the moment), it was about a 16-sec. exposure at f/22. I cropped out the edges of the negative, which is 6x7.

Thanks for the encouragement!

David
 
Sure... That's Ilford FB classic glossy paper, 8x10, printed on a Beseler 45MXT enlarger with a 2 1/2 contrast filter and some burning on the left edge and bottom left corner. If I remember correctly (don't have my notes with me at the moment), it was about a 16-sec. exposure at f/22. I cropped out the edges of the negative, which is 6x7.

Thanks for the encouragement!

David

I get similar exposure times at home, most others get much longer and I wonder why. I normally enlarge 135 to 5x7 paper and I get on averate 8seconds on f16 with Fibre. If I use RC, half of that maybe so I stop down to f22.

I envy people who get away with f11 or f8 and 10+ seconds. Something must be wrong with my enlarger or maybe my negatives are too thin...

Nice one and a great setup anyways. Would love that enlarger myself!
Ben
 
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"Salmon Fish Head $1.99"

Just a quick followup on the "Perfection" series of paper which i got for 95usd + 24usd shipping to singapore, this is 8x10 glossy 250 sheets.

Did a print on Ilford VC IV and on this Perfection Paper. Initial observation, works well, paper was about one stop more sensitive on "Perfection" than on Ilford VC IV. Of course, this is from initial printing of only two sheets, your mileage may vary,

Shot yesterday on the Yashica T4 with Kentmere 400 film.
 
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SQ 979 from BKK to Singapore.
I remember using the Leica Minilix, setting the range to 1.5m, and aperture stop at f2.4 on the Summilux, with the film at iso 800 (DX encoded).
Did several enlargements of this negative before I was satisfied with this print.
 
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