Response to New B&W printing

You are right, your print is definitely overexposed. Where did you get that knowledge from? You should refer to the same source to have some more info on the most basic darkroom procedures such as preparing a test strip. Your question does indeed show that you miss some vital background without which you will not be able to produce satisfactory prints (except maybe one or two lucky coincindences). Get some basic darkroom literature. Being German, and having learnt most of the basic stuff from basic German books, I am not in a position to recommend a real beginner's level book. Maybe Tim Rudman's The Photographer's Master Printing Course would be nice, although it goes pretty far. But it does explain how to make a test strip.

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