Oriental Warm tone papers - how responsive to selenium?

[hoffy]

Howdy,

Over the weekend I printed some pictures of my girls on Oriental Warm tone fibre paper. I am now planning to tone with Selenium to achieve just a little bit of a shift in the darker side of the mid tones (if that at all makes sense...)

Can anyone tell me how responsive the paper is to Selenium toning, specifically using KRST? What dilution should I be starting with?

Cheers

 

[Karl A]

Hi there, it is very responsive indeed, based on my experience. It will react more than Ilford warm tone and go to a plum color if left too long or done with stronger dilutions. Sometimes that's what one might want though?

With Kodak brown toner it will lose a fair bit of shadow density and end up a kind of rust color if you leave it in for several minutes.

Just my two cents based on playing around with a box of it. A good idea might be to test with a scrap print to find time and dilution that you like best?

 

[Marco Buonocore]

The oriental portrait warmtone paper tones beautifully in selenium. I'm not sure if that's what you've got. I think I do it 1:10 for a minute and a half. It goes from greenish hued to a lovely brownish tone.

 

[padraigm]

Agree with Marco 1:10 but 1 minute for me. The change was pretty quick. Going much longer it changed again on me to something less desirable IMO. But a lovely combination.

 

[hoffy]

Thanks. I now have some starting points, so I'll see how it goes.

 

[hoffy]

Well, I toned my prints today. Those oriental papers reacted very quick - there was quite a noticeable and quick change. A minute seemed to be just about perfect @ 1:10

Cheers

 

[klop]

I have gotten nice results with 1:20.