Black and white in the darkroom

[the_microscope_tuell]

I don't know how many of you do analog photography (film, doing your own processing, darkroom/workroom manipulations), but I have recently begun this again after a many year hiatus.

Some of the results are scattered in my galleries, primarily the Campus Life gallery, but I just put together a gallery specifically to compare results of different processing techniques. It can be found here http://www.pbase.com/the_microscope_tuell/comparison_gallery.

I would appreciate comments/advice/constructive criticism. It is all 100% manual, so there are many places to screw things up! I have been getting the film developed professionally and then doing the enlarging, but today I got bulk roll film, so did my first developing of the film itself, too. Beats waiting nearly a week for film processing!

Thanks for looking,
Mike