Stones - Mispillion River - Milford, Delaware - 2009 (work print)

Stones - Mispillion River - Milford, Delaware - 2008 (work print)

Technical Gobbledygook:

Neopan 400
HC110b for 6'00" at 20C

Nikon N75 w/ 35-80 zoom
No exposure recorded

Printed on Orient Seagull RC-VC II 8x10 glossy
Enlarger used: Fujimoto Lucky 60M (Little Boy)
Enlarger Height 20"
Aperture f/11
Exposure time 22 seconds
Controls: Dodging for the last six seconds of exposure.
I used a 4x5 film holder and slid in from the right to reach the left side at exposure stop time.

This is admittedly a work print.  I have the shadows exactly where I want them.  I want to bring the highlights up a zone or two.  I plan on adjusting development time.  The shadows come in after 15 seconds.  The print is fully developed after 60.  This is an exposure factor of four.  Since the highlights take longer to develop I plan on reducing the exposure factor to, at first, 3.5 (53 seconds?).  By pulling the print early the highlights do not have the opportunity to become as dense as they are at 60 seconds developing time.  If I am still not happy with that I will pull it at EF3, 45 seconds.  We will see where we are at that point but I am hopeful that this will succeed.

Felt good to be back in the dark after all this time.  And here is what I done.  I hope you all like it.