Steel Blue printing

[OptiKen]

I hope this is the right place to ask this.
I have some negatives that I would like to print to a steel blue tone (cold, hard, blue-grey tone).
Except I don't know what to use to get that look.

Any ideas?

 

[Doc W]

Could you give us an example?

 

[OptiKen]

Could you give us an example?

Sort of like cyanotype but not so much blue.....a more silver/blue

 

[juan]

You might try this old Ansco formula.
http://johnesimmons.com/?p=1511

I've never tried it.

 

[Raphael]

Hi Optiken,

The immediat thing which comes to mind is gold toning, for me

 

[Ian Grant]

Bob Carnie recently asked me the same question and at the moment the only suggest I can come up with that's reliable is Gold toning as suggested above.

Ian

 

[David Allen]

The best method would be to use direct iron toning as this can give a huge variety in blue-blue/black tones. Wolfgang Moersch has an excellent description with examples on his website:

http://www.moersch-photochemie.de/content/artikel/anleitungen/122

He also sells a kit for iron toning:

http://www.moersch-photochemie.de/content/shop/toner/63/mt7_iron_toner

Bests,

David.
www.dsallen.de

 

[Lachlan Young]

As stated above, Gold or Iron are probably your best starting points, failing that a bleach & redevelop colour coupler toner.

 

[Ian Grant]

As stated above, Gold or Iron are probably your best starting points, failing that a bleach & redevelop colour coupler toner.

The beauty of this is you can add te blue to the B&W image giving deeper blue blacks than just athe silever part before treatment. It's something I used a lot oin the late 70's and the 80's. The blue coupler is alpha-nathol which is readily available.

Ian

 

[OptiKen]

Iron and Gold it is, then.
Thanks everyone,

Ken
(sorting through prints before pay-day)