Show me your latest darkroom prints

pmiller, it looks like you're off to a good start. I'm just about to begin my printing session today (in my bathroom/darkroom). It's the most fun I'll have all weekend, without a doubt!

James
 
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Leica M4-2, 50mm Summicron, Tri-X, Ilford Ilfospeed Paper


I feel like I am slowly but surely progressing towards knowing what I am doing it least somewhat what I am actually doing. Also I've started to work a little more systematically and documenting what I am doing and what results I am getting. Waiting for further delving into something new is my first ever pack of multigrade paper and the required filters.



It feels really great to constantly learn new things and a lot of the work here is quite motivating to push forward on this 🙂
 
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I got to start using my new darkroom in the attic - a bit small, a bit damp, but okay for one person🙂
For start i got a bunch of old-ish bw paper and i decided to run a project to learn and exercise.
So i took some negs from 10-20 years ago that have my 5 friends (still bachelors/kidless) and i took some recent negs from a year ago from a weekend we spent together with kids wives husbands and all, and i printed for each family 28 prints in 5x7", half the old ones half the new ones.
Planning to mail them out as surprise.
See the stacks old/new below.

The "old" ones i printed on old brovira-speed, these were a little bit fogged and they also have a creamy base, not today's bright white. The images also ended up lower contrast this way. The "new" ones i printed on kentmere fineprint fiberbased which has a much higher default contrast (without using the VC feature). This also from the practical reasons that i did not have more than 100 sheets of the same type 😀
Flattening the fiberbased ones now under some heavy books.

The cat was fascinated by this activity unseen before.

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It wasn't so long ago that I made my first ever enlargements and now I'm already getting used to a new enlarger. My Durst F30 was a nice little beginners enlarger, but sadly it was also defective (focussing didn't work, I basically had to push or pull lens up and down). However it showed me that I wanted to doo more of this, so now I went all in and I'm getting used to working with a Focomat Ic. Haven't gotten to do a lot with it yet, but it's a joy to use 🙂
 
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