Electra132

Thin neg?

Lovely shot.
Martin

@Patrick Robert James Yea pretty thin. I'm going to tone it in selenium to help a bit. It's printable now for sure just not easy to get it right.

It is a lovely, mysterious mood technical details be damned.

I love it as is!

@Devorobin If you are almost there, selenium works. You could also bleach the print. With the deep blacks of that image it would be pretty easy to lighten parts of the print you want lighter. A quick dip might be all you need from what I see here, but that depends on what you are looking for. If you just need parts of it lightened then a brush with ferri works easily too.

@Patrick Robert James So far I’ve mostly tried selective dodging but it’s really hard to be selective enough without dodging over into the blacks. I do have plenty of ferri, maybe I’ll get out one of the junk prints and practice that approach. If I were to dip the whole print how dilute would the bleach have to be? I have bleach on hand for sepia toner and I have ferri and potassium bromide. So far I have only used ferri to try to white out black spots and the mix was just enough to turn the water yellow. I haven’t even tried mixing in the potassium yet. Thanks for the input. I’ve only had my darkroom up and running for six months now so I’ve got lots to learn…

Selenium leaves your negatives quite "gritty"
I used selenium at 1+2 for 6 mins and got about 1.5 grade increase in contrast.
It is a lovely print as it is - are you sure you want to do it ?
Martin

Thanks Martin. I would have never guessed you could get away with using selenium that strong. That’s quite a increase in density you got that way.
The photo you see here is a negative scan so I adjusted the contrast on the computer. Not by much by the way. So actually I’m working on making the actual print just like this if not better.