My first development...

Tim, Welcome to the fold Well I've seen some results that have taken weeks to get to this standard so I hope your feeling on top of the world at the moment

Hee TPPhotog,

The moment i saw the picture in clear daylight, certainly did feel king of the world.
I love to see how the picture comes up in the developer.
And my sister in law will kill me with kisses after she see's her little boy on black and white...

Tim

Welcome to the addiction. Nice first print. The dust spots you see on the print are not from the lens though; they're most likely on the negative.

Ohw...
That won\'t be a good thing.
My sister in law has her birthday in one week, and i was hoping to enlarge this print en give it a nice frame, for here birthday.

Is it a smart thing to make the background darker en my nephew a little lighter?
Just to get more feeling in the picture ???

Grtzz Tim

You might try and crop out the man on the left.

Get some negative cleaning stuff - canned air, anti-static brush, cleaning fluid, pads but be very very careful cleaning it. Practice on another for the first time. If there is something stuck on it then you can easily scratch the negative. But it should come clean. Nose oil (aka "snot") works pretty good in a pinch too.

Get a place for your negs to dry with a minimal amount of dust and get them into carriers quickly and you shouldn't have many issues.

It looks a little overexposed to me, but hard to tell on a computer. Second the cropping out the face

Best, William

I will try all these things.
On the computer it\'s a little bit darker then on paper.
But still the paper is a little dark to.
I found out there are some smaller scratches on the paper.
I think there from the (i dont know what to call these) things you use to hold your papers end take them from one bath to the other...

Thanks for the comments.

Uhm...

That's funny...

Just found out that you can develop the papers with filmdeveloper to.
:d

Stupid me...
Just found my (still closed) bottle of paper developer :d

Now i'm a shamed...

Grtzz Tim

Some suggestions to improve the picture:
Obviously you concentrated on the boy but forgot the background (some serious guy contemplating in the background)
Use a fill-flash to bring some sparkling in the eyes of the boy.
Print a least at a contrast grade higher. The picture has the tendency to be dull (the is no real black on the picture)
Eliminate the vertical beam in the background dividing the picture.

Good luck