Ephesus

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  Marco B

• May 7, 2008

Wonderful structures Ian, in a nice landscape. I like the soft brown color of the print too, is it solely the result of the warmtone paper and the ID78 developer? I never got such brown results with Ilford Warmtone paper and Ilford/Harman Warmtone developer.

 

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  Ian Grant

• May 7, 2008

Marco, Polywarmtone reacts quite well with Selenium and goes a lot warmer in colour. But I also use ID-78 at about 30C which helps the warmth too.

 

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  Marco B

• May 7, 2008

Ok, so this one is selenium toned, interesting to see the Forte Polywarmtone paper goes more neutral brown, instead of purplish, like Ilford Warmtone paper would. The result is much more what I would have expected of a mild sepia toning on Ilford papers.

Did you tone to completion or partially tone this print?

 

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  Ian Grant

• May 7, 2008

If you Selenium tone it's not advisable to tone to "Completion". Photographers like Thomas Joshua Cooper & Olivia Parker use Selenium and split-tone. Essentially if you leave the print too long the blacks take on a red hue.

Polywarmtone reacts very quickly in Selenium toner so you have to be very careful.

Ian

 

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  Marco B

• May 7, 2008

Thanks Ian for the answers. Yes, I too usually split tone with selenium, however, in a few rare cases it can be nice to tone to completion.

 

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  naknak

• May 7, 2008

Images of marbles,sounds of History !
What a perfect compose !!
With no echoes though !!!
Kyprianos