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Ok,
With a little patience one can get anywhere.
Turns out in the end that it was not my metering that was bad. I was rather my understanding, or lack thereof, of how film, paper and light conditions play together.
After a little experimenting, I've decided that I wanted to try to use ES 1.24 for my paper of choice, which is Seagul G2. This rates the paper as a #1 paper I know.
Then went out and took 2 photographs this weekend, developed and printed using the paper.
The result was that one of the photographs that was taken in bright light, looks absolutely perfect. Nice highlight detail and very nice smooth shadow detail.
The result of the second was a little different. The lighting conditions were not as contrasty as the first, no where near actually. The result was that with the same film and paper, the image look ok when printed, and actually prints at the exact paper exposure time and development of the first, when on a contact sheet, but the highlights are more gray and are not holding details the way I see them in the first image.
This is leading me to make 2 statements, and I'm hoping I can get a correction on it if I'm off:
1- In bright conditions, where sbr is 9+ (like it was in the first image), it's probably better to use a softer-toned paper.
2- In normal conditions with normal sbr, use a normal paper.
3- In low light conditions where sbr is around 5, use a #3 type paper.
Am I driving myself off in the wrong direction here, or am I getting closer to getting it?
Thanks
R
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