Topic: Printing stand developed negatives

[gsgary]

On another forum someone said they wouldn't look very good, what do you think ? actual print looks better
This was HP5 stand developed in the fridge water was at 17 degs before going in the fridge

[Late Developer]

Looks beautiful to me. Mind you, I'm more interested in that fantastic hound than the technicalities of how the film was processed.  What a characterful face.....

[timor]

Hi Gary, the beuaty is in the eye of the beholder. In my opinion scanning prints well is a bit harder than negatives, so it is real hard to have an opinion. Can tell you only, that you missed focus in this picture, which has nothing to do with the process.  I would burn the background behind the dog and in general burn down the edges of the print. It looks to me, that your enlarger has a bit of light fall off on the edges. What type of enlarger did you use ?

[gsgary]

There is no fall off on the print, im using a Focomat 1C with a wallner colour head fitted, it was shot wide open at F1.5

[gsgary]

Hi Gary, the beuaty is in the eye of the beholder. In my opinion scanning prints well is a bit harder than negatives, so it is real hard to have an opinion. Can tell you only, that you missed focus in this picture, which has nothing to do with the process.  I would burn the background behind the dog and in general burn down the edges of the print. It looks to me, that your enlarger has a bit of light fall off on the edges. What type of enlarger did you use ?

You want a vignette on the print ? Don't you mean dodge

[timor]

I mean the edges are too light, they have to be burned to match the tonality of the center of the picture. This happens, many enlargers display light fall off on the edges.

[Francois]

Happens on my LPL... I get more than 1 stop diff at the edges.
I think it has to do with the height of the bulb in the housing. Since they don't make as many of the models as they used to, I'm using a bulb which I think is not optimal for the job.

[gsgary]

The print does not look lighter at the edgers

[timor]

It looks in the scan. Scans usually bring out the worst in the print, that's why scans from negs always look better. (The point is however to show the final photographers vision, the print, not the substrate only.) Focomats are built for 35 mm film only ?
So as I said already, it might be just the negative. Just pay attention to edges with your future prints to be sure, that equipment is performing at the optimum. That's all.
Unless you run into such a thing:

[gsgary]

Cheers I fitted a new bulb as soon as I got it just to make sure