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selenium toning.
how do you guys feel about toning?
ive just begun to sell some prints, and i dont know whether or not i should tone then. i print on ilford gloss surface (fibre), and the result i want from selenium is a richer black, i hear warmtones turn color and this is not what i want. is it worth it? what kind of dilutions should i use? and is toning a common practice when selling prints to private buyers. I'm printing medformat to 16x20 size. cheers. k |
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"death skunk five" wrote: how do you guys feel about toning? ive just begun to sell some prints, and i dont know whether or not i should tone then. i print on ilford gloss surface (fibre), and the result i want from selenium is a richer black, i hear warmtones turn color and this is not what i want. is it worth it? what kind of dilutions should i use? and is toning a common practice when selling prints to private buyers. I'm printing medformat to 16x20 size. cheers. k You really should tone your prints with some type of toner if your selling them. Selenium is my choice but you can use Gold Protective toner, or Brown toner to produce a slight color change. Any of the above. -- LF Website @ http://members.verizon.net/~gregoryblank "To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."--Theodore Roosevelt, May 7, 1918 |
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death skunk five wrote: how do you guys feel about toning? ive just begun to sell some prints, and i dont know whether or not i should tone then. i print on ilford gloss surface (fibre), and the result i want from selenium is a richer black, i hear warmtones turn color and this is not what i want. is it worth it? what kind of dilutions should i use? and is toning a common practice when selling prints to private buyers. I'm printing medformat to 16x20 size. cheers. k There are two reasons for toning, one is esthetic where the color of the toner is approprate to the image; the other is to protect the image against oxidation and sulfiding by atmospheric polutants. The best toner for protecting the image is a polysulfide toner like Kodak Brown Toner or Agfa Viradon. These toners convert part or all of the silver image to silver sulfide, which is a very stable material. This type of toner is advantageous because it tones all densities about evenly so will provide protection even when the print is only lightly toned. Kodak Rapid Selenium Toner was for many years the toner of choice for protection of both film and print images. But, about fifteen years ago it was discovered that some microfilm treated with it was degrading. Research showed that the toner did not work quite the way it had in the past. The reason is not known for certain but the behavior has been established. So, the old recommendation of using KRST at 1:19 dilution for a few minutes is no longer the ideal choice for image protection. Greater toning in a stronger dilution is a good protectant but causes more color change. Where the change in color and density is acceptable KRST at 1:9 or stronger is a perfectly good toner for both image protection and color change. The color from KRST is somewhat different from KBT or Viradon. For color change the choice is a matter of the color desired. All sulfiding toners provide good image protection when the image is fully toned but KBT and Viradon are the ones that work best for partial toning. Gold toners change the image color toward blue. They are very good image protectors but do tend to split tone. Their main drawback is cost. Toners that use metallic substitution of the silver after bleaching in a ferricyanide bath, like Iron Blue toner or Copper toner, are less stable than the original silver image. They are useful for prints that are not expected to have long lives. Some of these toners produce very attractive effects. Nelson's Gold Toner, a sulfiding toner with Gold as a color modifier (shifts the color toward red) is also capable of archival protection. Proabably any print that is sold should be either toned in a protective toner or treated with as stabilizing agent like Agfa Sistan. Sistan is not as effective as proper toning but provides considerable protection without changing the appearance of the image. There has been a great deal of research on the protection of photographic images in the last twenty years and much of this is available on the web. For general instructions on toning I strongly recommend _The Photographer's Master Printing Course_ Tim Rudman An Amazon search will find it. -- Richard Knoppow Los Angeles, CA, USA |
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Just try. Your question will be solved. I always selenium tone FB prints,
not for permanence - I have no museum ambitions - but for depth of blacks (Ilford Multigrade). Jan "death skunk five" schreef in bericht ... | how do you guys feel about toning? | | ive just begun to sell some prints, and i dont know whether or not i should | tone then. | i print on ilford gloss surface (fibre), and the result i want from selenium | is a richer | black, i hear warmtones turn color and this is not what i want. | | is it worth it? what kind of dilutions should i use? and is toning a | common | practice when selling prints to private buyers. | | I'm printing medformat to 16x20 size. | | cheers. | | k | | |
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