Major Practical Project - The test strips and rejected prints.

Here are a selection of my test strips from the darkroom along with my analysis, in order to show my progression to getting the perfect print from each negative. I did find that because a lot of the images were shot on the same day/in the same few days many of the settings could be transferred between images, so I didn't have to do so many test strips per image as I got further through the printing process.

f8, Yellow = 75, Magenta = 75, Cyan = 0, 2 4 6 8 10 seconds.

f8, Y = 75, M = 75, C = 0, 6 secs.

f8, Y = 65, M = 65, C = 0, 7 secs.

f8, Y = 55, M = 55, C = 0, 6 secs.

f8, Y = 55, M = 55, C = 0, 5 secs.

These are the settings I decided to go for in the final print. I had to re-do this particular print because of a small black line on the bottom right hand side of the image where the placement of the back board didn't quite match up with the placement of the negative in the enlarger.

f8, Y = 60, M = 55, C = 0, 3.5 secs.

f8, Y = 60, M = 55, C = 0, 5.5 secs.

f8, Y = 60, M = 55, C = 0, 7 secs.

f8, Y = 60, M = 55, C = 0, 8.3 secs.

f8, Y = 40, M = 50, C = 0, 3.7 secs.

f8, Y = 50, M = 50, C = 0, 5.5 secs.

f8, Y = 45, M = 55, C = 0, 5.5 secs.

f8, Y = 50, M = 60, C = 0, 5 secs.

f8, Y = 50, M = 60, C = 0, 3.5 secs.

f8, Y = 50, M = 60, C = 0, 4.5 secs.

f8, Y = 50, M = 60, C = 0, 5 secs.

f8, Y = 50, M = 60, C = 0, 4.5 secs.

f8, Y = 50, M = 60, C = 0, 6 secs.

f8, Y = 50, M = 60, C = 0, 8 secs.

f8, Y = 50, M = 60, C = 0, 9 secs.

I have now printed all but three of my final images to the standard I was looking for. Two of them I am yet to print, and one of them I had already done, but needs to be re-printed.