Response to Paper and Developer - Establishing my style

There are probably as many favourite combinations as there are forum members. My suggestion would be to get a few small packages of different papers and try them out. You may come to the conclusion that maybe you wish to stick with cold tones, but that you need this paper for a specific negative and that one for a different negative, for all papers have their virtues, though in different sections of the characteristic curves. And even when you mainly use cold-tone paper, every now and then, you may come across a negative that looks just splendid on warm-tone paper, or split-toned (such as warm in the shadows and cold in the highlights, or vice versa). I don't think there is a way to short-cut a certain amount of experimentation.

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