My 1st successful prnting session!!!

[stradibarrius]

These print are on Ilford MGIV RC paper with a 3.5 CF. My enlarger is a B&W. I think the shot of the Chess Players would have been better with lower contrast and I would like to dodge about a half step on the face of the player facing the camera.
These are not my first attempts at printing just the first where I feel like they were good...I have gone through a couple of packs of paper and these are the first prints where I feel that they have good sharpness, contrast and tonal range that I was trying to achieve. This is also the first time I have tried to print Delta 400...These printed easy???

[benjiboy]

You deserve honest congratulations.
The prints indeed look very well processed.
You seem to have a good eye on tones and composition.
Printing is like sex: it gets even more pleasurable, the better you get. Sure, it might get frustrating and some days you might seem you keep at it for hours with no success, but you really never lose that first time excitement.
Unless you become a darkroom whore that is. And you never forget you're first time :rolleyes:

[Jeff Kubach]

Looks good! Keep up the good work.

Jeff

[KWhitmore]

Way to go! :-))

[RalphLambrecht]

You are the last person I expected to read that from!
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Well, you're right, I spend a lot of time in the darkroom, but I draw the line at comparing printing with sex or calling film sexy. I guess, at that point, it's time to get out of the fumes. :D

[arigram]

Well, you're right, I spend a lot of time in the darkroom, but I draw the line at comparing printing with sex or calling film sexy. I guess, at that point, it's time to get out of the fumes. :D
What can I say, not everybody has the same libido. ;)

[Curt]

Excellent, the future is yours now, feel the freedom and exhilaration of being able to make a photograph of something which you decided how it will look before hand. I can still remember my first one and the excitement it generated.

Regards,
Curt