Thanks to the MGIV Warmtone Lith printers...

[M Carter]

…who have generously shared their processes here - I think I'm getting this dialed in!

1st pass, too (I tried 2nd pass and the initial stages were, umm… interesting, but the final looked just like the pre-bleach). I wanted something a little "transformative" for these negs.

Love ya APUG!!!

 

[Bob Carnie]

So did you find that pulling the print when the blacks are just coming out is the trick with this paper?

 

[M Carter]

Yes - I let them get fairly established but was really letting the mids get solid.

This is a really dense, overdeveloped neg (thanks a bunch massive dev chart… shoulda thought 15 minutes was extreme…) Anyway, while I was testing this I accidentally flashed the paper for 3 seconds with no neg or diffusion in the enlarger and thought "might as well"… that was really the trick, for this shot anyway. TONS of flash.

Odd thing - in the jawline of that statue is a little chip that's black; and that paper does develop infectiously, on several test prints it turned into a giant blotch before the mids got established. Retouching the neg tomorrow! But it's obviously a sort of infectious dev going on, just a very oddball paper for lith and it requires good note taking and watching for exhausted developer. But just the look I imagined for this image (though I'm going to play with the balance of fog exposure and neg exposure, I want to see it with less prevalent blacks as well).