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One of my favourite toner combinations for silver gelatine prints is thiourea (MT3 Vario) followed by selenium (MT1). With the new MT17 selenium toner, similar results are now possible with Kallitypes.
From left to right: Sodium acetate developer, MT3 Vario toner (bleach 1+75 30 secs and toner setting A) over-toned with MT17 1+7 2 mins.
It used to be a pub. The Sun Inn offered everything the traveller needed including accommodation and a beer garden behind the building. These days, pubs are being converted into residential homes and developers make sure that the yard behind is turned into accommodation too, rental or other.
Fuji X-Pro1.
Photo information:
Film type: 135.
Film name: Fomapan 100@100.
Developer: D-76.
Process: 20°C.
Developer dilution: 1+3.
Developing time: 17'.
Scanner manufacturer: Epson Perfection V550 Photo.
Photo information:
Film type: 135.
Film name: Adox CHS 100 II@100.
Developer: Adox FX-39 II.
Process: 20°C.
Developer dilution: 1+19.
Developing time: 14'.
Agitation: in 10 sec every 1 min..
Camera: Canon EOS 5.
Lens: Zoom Lens EF 35-80mm 1:4-5.6.
Filter(s) used: no
Aperture: 11.
Exposure time: 1/60.
Focal length: 50 mm.
Scanner manufacturer: Epson Perfection V550 Photo.
Sunset, Bald Head Island
I know this seems over the top, I haven't boosted the color (I rarely do) and at any rate this really is what it looked like.
Pentax K-1
SMC Pentax 1:3.5 35mm
Iridient Developer
Affinity Photo
Bridal Veil Falls at high flow, Cullasaja Gorge, Nantahala National Forest
590nm IR-converted Pentax K-5
SMC Pentax-A 1:2.8 24mm
Iridient Developer
Catkins and budding leaves of American Hornbeam (AKA Ironwood, Carpinus caroliniana), Eno River State Park
Pentax K-1
SMC Pentax 1:1.8 85mm
Iridient Developer
Only just taller than a tree ...
El Capitan in afternoon light (and forced perspective).
590nm IR-converted Pentax K-5
SMC Pentax 1:3.5 35mm
Iridient Developer
Kallitype
Hahnemühle Platinum Rag, Potassium Citrate developer, ATS alkaline fixer:
untoned
MT10 Gold toner
MT3 Vario toner (thiourea)
Fuji Superior 200 (expired 2006) 35mm shot at 64 iso. Colour film converted in Black and White Developer.
I kind of like the Vintage Stale Look this is creating on the shots from this spool. I didn't want to increase the brightness on this because I like the creepy mood!. I don't know should I?hmm maybe. Let me know what you think. To increase or not to increase the brightness. Arty Criticism most welcomed. 🙏
Pentax Spotmatic II
Auto Chinon 1:3.5 200mm
f3.5
No tripod, No crop. Dust removal in Photoshop.
Dilution 1+50, 300ml, 20C, 10 minutes .
Developer: Adox Rodinal.
Adox Fixer
Ilford Wash Process
The sodium acetate developer produces the coolest image tone in Kallitype.
One or the other user may well have doubts about this. If the results are not as cool as expected, this is not due to the developer but to the workflow. A really cool tone is only maintained if the print does not come into contact with tap water before fixing. If the print is rinsed with tap water after the developer or the clearing bath, the image tone will be significantly warmer. It is not a question of which shade is perceived as more pleasant, but rather an advantage to know how to control the colourfulness.
For toning before fixing (platinum, palladium, gold), a rinse cycle is advisable in order not to change the property of the toner by introduced acid. For all tonings after fixing, a cooler initial print has the advantage of a higher maximum blackening. This is not decisive for successful toning, but differences in hue and saturation become apparent.
Left: developer, Citric acid clearing bath 1% (with demineralised water), ATS acidic fixer.
Right with a short rinse with tap water after the clearing bath,
Leica M2
35mm Summicron (type 3) (yellow filter)
Fomapan 100 in Arista developer (Clayton F60) (1:9 @ 68 deg for 7 min)
"An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day."
Henry David Thoreau
“What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?”
E. M. Forster
“We can only appreciate the miracle of a sunrise if we have waited in the darkness” -Unknown
Rolleiflex T, TMY in Pyro48,
Kallitype 20x20cm onto COT-320,
Sodium acetate developer,
MT3 Vario toner followed by MT10 Gold toner
Illustrations/code-names for the development team here at work.
If you have a problem - if no one else can help - and if you can find them - maybe you can hire: The Developers.
Scanned Holga IR print.
Holga 120 CFN w/ Rollei IR 400 and Hoya R72 IR filter. 6x4,5 cm film mask.
Jan 31, 2026.
Developed in HC-110 25 ml + 475 ml H2O, semistand 75 min.
Printed on old and fogged Kosmos Bromega bromide pearl FB paper and developed in Caffenol (to 500 ml: washing soda 16 g, Vitamin C 9 g and Instant coffee 21 g).
Toned in Se 1+9, 30 sec.
PS borders.
Hammarö, Värmland, Sweden.
Caffenol suits the often hard contrast IR negs and brings a more softer rendering with even some color variations depending on exposure. Caffenol is a great developer for Fomapan 100 and also a great paper developer.
The soup is tar like and demands that you lift up the paper once in a while to monitor the development!
Tomorrow I will post some Ilford RC copies of IR negs developed in Caffenol.
One of the developers close by was clearing some land to start the building of a new house, and I asked if they would save me some of the trees he was taking down. He assumed that I wanted them for firewood, but when I told him I wanted them for a project in my forest he was intrigued.
I explained I was going to make a path out of slices of trees through my forest and as part of my landscaping plan. He thought this was such a cool idea that he pulled and stacked them on my property free of charge (and it was probably easier than hauling them away).
I call that a win-win!
Theme: Devoid of Color
Year Sixteen Of My 365 Project
Rollei SL66SE, Carl Zeiss Planar 80mm f/2,8, Konica Infra-red film IR750 developed in Kodak D76, digitised by photographing the original negative on a light pad - tethered capture and digital development in Lightroom.
The Jura peaks are roughly 30km away in a northwesterly direction, seen from the same viewpoint as that for the previous photo. The use of long wavelengths (750nm) makes for a haze-free image.
Here you can see how early car manufacturers used lead (instead of Bondo) to fill in roof joints. Notice how sanding (file) marks are still present in the lead. More importantly, just how thick the early paint jobs had to be to cover these scratches up.
Image:
Konica T4
40mm f1.8
Fuji 4791 duplicating film.
POTA developer, 12 Minutes.
Akasaka, Tokyo, Japan
Pentax 67ii
Pentax SMC 67 105mm F2.4
Kodak Tri-X 400
Kodak TMAX Developer
DSLR Scan
Negative Supply Holder
Negative Lab Pro
I had always wanted to try this homemade developer but didn’t want to waste a roll of something from a trip. So, I took a tool of Kentmere (inexpensive B&W film), went and bought the three ingredients I didn’t have and set out some items to shoot. The ingredients are, Washing Soda Powder (Sodium Carbonate) I bought at Home Depot, Vitamin C Powder I bought at Whole Foods and Instant Caffeinated Coffee that I bought at Trader Joe’s, and the iodized salt I had. For a 1000ml solution use 40 grams of instant coffee, 16 grams of washing soda, 8 grams of vitamin C powder and 1 gram of iodized salt (optional and not needed if using distilled or filtered water). Mix the coffee in 800 grams of water, mix in the washing soda, mix in the vitamin c (there will be a slight reaction because of the washing soda, then add the salt if needed. Bring the temperature of the solution to 68 degrees F or 20 C. For developing time used the Stand Process. The photos lost much of the shadow details and I think this was because I agitated at the beginning and again at the halfway mark of 30 minutes. Next time I will only agitate for 1 minute initially and end the process at 45 minutes.
Beginners in the technique of Kallitype often ask which developer they should choose.
Only a comparison of colour and tonal values with identical exposure time. To achieve the same level of blackness with the acetate developer, the exposure time would have to be slightly longer.
This is a bulk gas carrier and guess what. That is a gas power station in the backround
Shot from Portishead Quay as the BRO Developer approaches Avonmouth.
Leica M2
Leica Summilux 35mm f/1.4 II
Ferrania P30
Adox Silvermax Developer (1+29)
11 min 20°C
Scan from negative film
Every time I come to San Francisco, there is some kind of smart-ass billboard along the highway ... "ask your developer," it says.
Ask her what? Whether Twilio is better than some other provider? Whether the cloud is here to stay? Who comes up with these crazy signs?
Fortunately, it doesn't matter very much ... by the time I come back again, this billboard will have been replaced by something else just as mysterious.
Note: I chose this as my "photo of the day" for Nov 21, 2015
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In early November 2015, I flew from New York to San Francisco to take a weekend street-photography workshop under the tutelage of Eric Kim. As you might expect, I took gazillions of photos; but not all of them were specifically associated with the workshop itself. On the way out to San Francisco, I took a bunch of pictures with my iPhone; and during the weekend, I took a number of photos that had little or nothing to do with street-photography per se.
I’ll upload the photos in dribs and drabs during the next several days, and let you decide which ones are sufficiently interesting to warrant a second look…