[pure-silver] Re: another toning question
- From: "janet ness" <nessj@xxxxxxx>
- To: <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 23:57:19 -0800
Thanks all for the advice. It gives me some techniques to try.
Janet Ness
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From: Tim Rudman
To: pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 11:12 AM
Subject: [pure-silver] Re: another toning question
You are right Richard, I do try to follow this list whenever I can. I have
been in the USA for the last 2 months though, with limited email access and
just got back 2 days ago to an absolute mountain of mail, bills and emails,
so I am just surfacing! I see there has been quite a lot of recent
correspondence on toning here.
Janet, I think Michael Kenna's prints are split 'sepia' toned with a very
short bleach stage to leave plenty of 'black' silver in the mid and low
tones.
I use this process a lot and dilute the bleach substantially to control the
result, according to the paper I use. If I use a warm tone paper (these
bleach much faster than neutral or cold tone papers) I will dilute bleach to
1/10th or maybe even 1/20th of 'recommended working strength' and time it to
the second as it always goes further than your eyes tell you. For MGWT this
could be just 30 seconds depending on the bleach. I try to avoid higher
dilutions than this as the action of ferricyanide appears to change as it is
more diluted. MGIV will give cooler colours in sepia toners than MGWT and
will bleach more slowly too. The colours may also be altered by using a
variable colour sepia toner (thiourea a.k.a. thiocarbamide) and/or by
various other tricks.
Tim
http://www.worldbookoflithprinting.com
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[mailto:pure-silver-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Richard Knoppow
Sent: 07 November 2005 14:10
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Subject: [pure-silver] Re: another toning question
-----Original Message-----
From: janet ness <nessj@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Nov 6, 2005 11:01 PM
To: pure-silver <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [pure-silver] another toning question
I admire the prints of Michael Kenna. I like their subtle tone, a slight
tan in the grays and highlights. I have heard that he uses sepia. I have
limited experience with sepia toning. How would he use sepia to achieve
such a tone? Would it be by partial bleaching?
Janet Ness
Its hard to tell from his web site but whats there looks more like
lith prints than toning- maybe. I've tried partial bleaching but get a much
stronger color on the toned parts, perhaps very slight bleaching would do
it.
Probably the best single source of information on toning is Tim
Rudman's book _The Photographer's Master Printing Course_ He also has a
book on lith printing. I thought he followed this list.
--
Richard Knoppow
dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Los Angeles, CA, USA
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