After having bought some 10x8 pearl photographic paper (resin-coated, not fibre-based), I headed down to the darkroom with negatives in hand. The image I printed was one that's already been scanned in and uploaded here before, so I didn't see the need to scan in and upload the image again, I did however, include some darkroom test-strips (below).
The paper I used was Ilford MGRC Cooltone Pearl, I chose this particular paper because I didn't want to use glossy paper for the low-contrast, high-grain skintones that I'd captured. I felt that the pearl paper really did improve the feel and quality of the images. Though I had scanned the negatives in digitally before I feel that there's always something lacking in the digital prints and copies that the analogue prints have, there's a solidness and the satisfying tangible quality that digital never seems to capture.
Ideally I would have blown these images up to life-size too, had I the time and photographic paper to do so. I don't feel that the 10x8 size quite does them justice but for the time being it is a reasonable substitute.
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