Digital vs. Darkroom?

Whoever says printing digitally is easier than the darkroom is full of crap. Easier to create multiple copies of the same image, yes. But easier to come up with a finely crafted print? Not really. I've been toying with some images lately and the first print is not always what I expect and/or want. True, working on the computer is easier to see the changes immediately (i.e. during burning and dodging), but it's still taken me some hard work, precious time, and precious money in paper getting that final print. One goes through the same process of making a print, examining it, finding what needs to be lighter, what needs to be darker, then going back and starting over and fixing what needs to be fixed. After up to, I don't know, 5 tries, sometimes, I finally get a print I'm satisfied with. Who knows, maybe with a quality monitor calibrated correctly, I might get better, more consistent results, but maybe working this way makes me feel a little like I'm back in the darkroom (which I miss terribly).

New negatives soon!

I got all the rest of my chemicals down here last weekend, so I'll be able to start developing all the many many negatives I have. Now I need a way to get the scanned in...I'm thinking of calling up the photo departments at BYU or UVSC and seeing if I can use their scanner...if they have one. So hopefully within a week or two I should have BRAND NEW photos up here!