If I needed to do any dodging and burning (last print might have benefited from that), I would probably raise the head even more or stop down to f16 or both. I just set the height of the enlarger high enough to ensure full coverage. Exposures at f11 had a tight range from 5.2 to 6.7 seconds with most being either 5.7 or 6.2 seconds. Development in Dektol, all images used Ilford contrast level 2 with light from a Beseler 23c II condenser enlarger. I made the image look decent on my monitor, but did not attempt to modify contrast much. Unlike alternative processes, I did not apply much of a curve to the images, but instead compressed the tonal scale on a few of the images, but that was about it. The negatives were then printed on Pictorico OHP, 8×10. As with other digital negatives I converted to B&W, adjusted levels a little, inverted and flipped horizontal.

In this case, I used digital originals for 5 of the 6 negatives. The results were the best silver gelatin prints I’ve ever made. So I decided to try a new technique today, using digital negatives (as with alternative processes), but instead using regular silver gelatin paper.