>>3594050So, basically you miss contrast in your negatives and pushing gave it the contrast you're looking for. The thing with contrast for wet printing is that increasing it is easy, but reducing it can be hard. That's why I prefer HP5+ over e.g. Tri-X.
What makes me wonder is the grain, it looks really coarse for Xtol.
>>3594054it does
>>3594055I really like stuff like this, but cannot tell why.