Islands In The Sky

For me this is near perfect example of toning for effect. A very perceptive approach. It looks like split toning in that the large foreground is sepia but the background and sky is normal B&W. If so how did you go about the split toning. Thanks

pentaxuser

Well, I could not tell you why. A week or two ago dlin posted a beautiful image on Ilford MGIV and indicated he had bleached back and then toned in thiocarbamide. It was just what I wanted my images to look like. So I mixed up some ferri bleach and thiocarbamide toner. I bleached this image back to where it was only the shadows left and a hint of the midtone. Toned for a minute or so in thiocarbimide and then a minute in selenium with 5 minute washes between. I was actually trying to get more of a black shadow and brown midtone. I probably bleached & toned 15 strips of my test prints, varying the amount of bleaching and the A:B ratio of the thiocarbamide toner until I got something I liked. I still would like to discover how to get the black shadows and sepia midtones.

Thanks for the comment. I'm quite happy with the print.