Springfield Lumber

Excellent, Excellent, Excellent!! I love the composition, forcing the door all the way to the left. I would like more info on exactly how you toned this!

Isn't it impossible to sepia tone, after using selenium? Correct me if I'm wrong but, selenium should be the last toner used, no?

brian steinberger said:

Excellent, Excellent, Excellent!! I love the composition, forcing the door all the way to the left. I would like more info on exactly how you toned this!

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Same here. A really lovely image!

Colin Corneau said:

Isn't it impossible to sepia tone, after using selenium? Correct me if I'm wrong but, selenium should be the last toner used, no?

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It can work either way, but I've found that the results are different. If you selenium tone to completion, it is really hard to get it to bleach back at all. I often selenium tone first if I want a more subtle effect. Looking at this, though, I think this one was sepia toned first

My general process is to first print a bit dark (an extra 10-20% depending on how far I bleach back) and a little less contrast than I normally would. Then bleach back until it looks right for the look you are after (3-30 seconds for me in (Kentmere Sepia 2 in this case), wash, sepia tone, wash, then selenium tone in about 1:10 Kodak selenium. I bleached much further in the previous image "Dry Rice). I find MGWT downright ugly without at least selenium, but it really is nice with split toning. I'm no expert, but I know how to make it work given enough paper

A gem of an image, your detail in the image is just perfect, great choice of finish, Paul.

Beautiful Mark, just wonderful!

Luscious and chocolatey mid-tones. Beautiful.

Lovely subtle print Mark!