brown/black toning

[johanselmerlarsen]

Am looking for help with developer/paper/toner combination for deep rich brown/black tone (chestnut). I find selenium, pot. iodide bleach, gold useful but erratic and difficult. Any ideas?

 

[jim appleyard]

I'm not aware of a dev like this one made commercially, but Anchell's "Darkroom Cookbook" has several recipes for homemade devs. You may find one in there.

 

[nworth]

Partial brown or sepia toning may give you an acceptable answer. Either don't fully bleach for sepia toning or pull the print early for brown toning. I haven't tried it, and it's expensive, but palladium toning might also give you what you want. Also, check Tim Rudman's book for ideas.

 

[Phillip P. Dimor]

Warmtone paper and polytoner? I know that Kodak doesn't make it any longer (though there does exist a kodak tech. pub. that explains a method of mixing kodak brown toner with KRST. to give an 'equivalent' look. I've never tried it.)

I've never had success with bleaching/polytoning and also have never tried gold toning.. Sepia usually goes too warm for me.