Man and Dog (iPhone snap rather than print scan)

Are you setting the white and black points?

Do you mean the thing that looks like a graph with sliders at the bottom? Yes but it appears I’m doing it all wrong. I've been printing today. More XP2. I seem to have my eye in, it's just a bit different to ordinary film. I used EI 200 and that has made for dense negatives that needs about double my usual time. There's also a lot more contrast adjustment needed. Usually almost everything I do will print at between 2 and 3 but with the XP2 it's been anywhere from 1 to 3.5.

Anyway, I digress. I'm going to do some more scanning this evening and will try to get the scans to better match what I see when the print is in my hand.

@Eric Rose I think I have solved this. Somehow my scanner settings had become strange. I have reset to default and already there is an improvement. Thank you for asking about the graph thing. It was that type of problem.