Colour printing

I'm glad I'm not printing this in the darkroom: I've tried over 20 variation of the scan settings, which, if this were colour paper, would have cost a small fortune. I'd have been ducking in and out of the darkroom to see what I'd done, and since it takes a while for my eyes to adjust, this takes time and introduces error. I also couldn't have been writing this at the same time as the print was developing (the scanner is scanning at the moment).

Here are the thumbnails of some of the variants. The differences between them are generated, in some cases, by very small changes in the scan settings (e.g., from 236 to 237 in one of the blue channel parameters).  In just one panel - the AD coding 'histogram', there are 5 settings per channel, so there are a lot of variables to mess with.     


This is the final product. It probably has slightly more blue in the highlights than the original scene, at least as I remember it (it was late evening as the sun was setting and the light was fairly yellow), but it seemed more pleasing to me than a possibly more accurate representation.