A bit better as better contrast and not so dark as the original print. 3 minutes toning

The Galata Tower - Istanbul.

VDB on Fabriano Artistico paper, shortly toned in a very diluted Selenium toner.

Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper

Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.

Ilford FP4 dev in Rodinal 1+25. Print 12"x16" on Ilford Art 300 dev in Moersch 4812 selenium tone. 1+10 2 min.

Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.

Selenium based

The diffuser stores away with the cell cover

Photo Emulsion on Mount Board

Selenium Toned

This is a selfportrait of me playing the piano.

I printed this on Adox MCC 110 Fibre-Base (Baryt) paper and toned in Selenium toner.

untoned Kallitype - Selenium toned

MT7 Iron Blue after Selenium - treatment with very weak Ammonia solution

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Because iron-based coatings are not very sensitive to room light, one tends to be somewhat careless. Mostly one doesn´t see a resulting fog in the picture itself, but with masked borders any slight pre-exposure becomes visible. A propper clearing is also important, especially when a toning is intended. Do not use a water bath after the developer in order to avoid a forming of insoluble iron hydroxide. Go directly into the acid.

As already mentioned, the whole film was underexposed. After a treatment with copper intensifier the negatives became useable for lith printing, a straight enlargement with normal developers is still impossible.

Do not dispair about thin negatives. Besides the digital rescue route there is a chemical hardliner method of choise, the copying on film in one step with reversal development. What I usually do with enlarged negatives is also possible as a contact. Provided that your original negative shows a minimum of shadow detail, you can spread a much too short range to any desired contrast.

This negative came up to only 0.36 logD after intensifying - measured with a colourblind densitometer. The additional increase of contrast due to the reddish copper is still not enough for a propper silver gelatin print. What we need for an enlargement on silver papers is a contrast between 0.8 and 1.3 logD. Much more would be possible, such as about 2.0 logD for Palladium.

This enlarged print negative (20x20cm) has a contrast of 1.3 logD - perfect for a Kallitype.

Coated on Bergger Cot-320

Masking meterial is a black plastic bag out of a paper box.

Developer: Sodium citrate

Clearing bath: Citric acid 4%

Fixer: ATS (alkaline) 1+20

At the corner of Colorado Boulevard and Orange Grove Boulevard in Pasadena, California, there is a very tall flagpole -- if you have ever watched the Rose Bowl Parade, you have seen it, as this is the corner the units turn to proceed down Colorado during the event. The flagpole commemorates the veterans from Pasadena of World War I. There are large bronze reliefs at its base -- this one shows a nurse bandaging a doughboy's eyes, most likely injuries received from a mustard gas attack. Converted to selenium toned monochrome in Adobe Lightroom.

Nikon F90X, Película TriX 400 a 800 Iso. Revelador Gago Tonalplus 1+99 (baja densidad) 25º C, 6 minutos. Papel Forte PW15, revelador Gago KLDuro (1+1+5) + Toque Master (1+5)

Virado parcial al selenio directo (Gago Selentoner) + Virado sepia (Gago Sulfurol)

Partial toned with direct selenium+ sepia toned all the image.

Original 24x30 digitalizado/ scanning.

Mercadillo del domingo/ Sunday´s street market

Padrón, A Coruña. Novembro 2007

Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper

8x8 selenium / sepia toned silver gelatin print.

Hasselblad 503cw, Planar 2.8/80, 2min. exposure, Ilford Pan F Plus 50 on MG ART 300 paper, Selenium toning.

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Mini portrait session with Viva in Campbeltown

Negatives: Mamiya 645 Pro with HP5+

Prints: Adox MCC 110 in Moersch ECO with Selenium+Siena toning

Neg: 17-12-6 Print: 17-P-32

So this is just a close-up of a leaf rendered in selenium.

New series: Thicket

All of the photographs in this series were scanned from original hand-printed, selenium-toned prints made with Ilford MG IV fiber-based paper.

While the color version was lightly edited, this version saw just about every inch of my software. Converted in Silver Efex. It still seemed blah so I moved it to Perfect Effects for added curves work then to Topaz BW Effects for some selenium tone. and back to PE 8 for the border.

Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.

Fuji GSW690 III, TriX, Rodinal, Ilford Art 300, Catechol/SE6 Blue, Bleach 1+50 30s, MT3a 45s, Selenium 1min, Gold 1 minute.

silver gelatin print

watercolor paper coated with Rollei Black Magic liquid emulsion

sepia & selenium toned

Delta 3200

Rodinal

Lith print

Ilford MG.FB.WT / Selenium / Sepia

Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.

Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.

Adox CHS 50 / Efke R50 in Tanol 1+1+100

printnegative on Wephota FO5 by reversal development: SE6 Blue 1+20 - bichromate bleach - Tanol 1+1+100

Kallitype, masked edges

sodium citrate developer

citric acid clearing bath

alkaline fixer

MT1 Selenium Toner 1+250 1 min

Tomada en la Torre de la Horadada (Alicante) - España.

Sony DSLR-A700

30''

F22

ISO 100

Sigma 10-20mm a 16mm

Cokin ND8 P121S

Manfrotto 055XPROB + 488RC2 + Mando a distancia.

Nik Silver Efex Pro.

Wasser allein reicht nicht aus, um das unbelichtete Silbersalz völlig zu lösen, eine Behandlung mit Kochsalzlösung auch nicht. Der Selentoner ohne Thiosulfat greift sich auch die kleinsten Silbersalzreste. Es muß also ein sanftes Lösemittel zur Klärung ran, bevor getont wird. Thiocyanat (5%) wirkt, das EDTA/Sulfit-Klärbad für den Platindruck auch. Nun könnte man beides auch in den Toner reinpacken, aber dann würden sich die gelösten Silber- und Eisensalze im Toner anreichern, was seine Lebensdauer enorm verkürzen würde. Es ist jedoch kein zusätzlicher Arbeitsgang erforderlich, denn auf die übliche Entfernung der Eisensalze mit Zitronensäure kann verzichtet werden, das EDTA erledigt das gleich mit.

Water and a sodium chloride solution is not enough to remove the unexposed silver salt.

Potassium thiocyanate works as a weak "fixer", the standard clearing bath (EDTA/sulfit) also.

developer

clearing bath - EDTA/Sulfit works best

thiosulfate-free selenium toner

alkaline fixer

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Hasselblad 500 C/M with Kodak 100 TMX developed in Pyrocat-HD.

Printed on Foma Neobrom 1111 (same paper different tones)

Lith development in Champion Novolith

Selenium toned

Photo Emulsion on Watercolour Paper

Selenium Toned

Playing around with tinting black and white photos trying for a dark selenium tone for the water and sky. (-50 cyan +50 blue)

Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.

Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.

Dark room print on Fomabrom 111 in Ilford MG developer. Intensive toning (15 min) in Foma Selenium 1+19, although it doesn't show easily in the scan.

Holga 120N, Rollei RXP 400 rated at 640 ASA, efd 2+1+40 15 mins

Rollei Vintage 128 (Fomabrom Variant 123) in SE4 Neutral

Toner

MT3 Vario - bleach 1+50 45 secs, toner 50+180+750ml 30 secs

MT1 Selenium 1+5 2 mins

New series: Brenner

All of the photographs in this series were scanned from original hand-printed, selenium-toned prints made with Ilford MG IV fiber-based paper.

Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.

took this a while back

canon F1n canon fd 135mm 3.5 lens selenium toned scan of print

Mamiya RZ 67 PRO II - Kodak Tmax 400 developed in Pyrocat-HD. Printed on Sepia VC. Developer Moersch Eco 4812 + Selenium 1-20 + bleach 1-50 + MT3 60-110-850 + Carbon toner 1-10

Film: Ilford Delta 100;

Paper: Ilford Galerie n.2

Developing solution: Kodak TMax RS;

Selenium Toner.

Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.

www.kityoung.co.uk.

Shot with natural light

New series: Cromer

www.kityoung.co.uk/Cromer

Photograph scanned from an original hand-printed, selenium-toned print made with Ilford MG FB Classic paper.

slavich bromportrait 80 grade 3, arista premium liquid lith, selenium 1+1+9, hc-110, neopan 1600.

scanned negative: www.flickr.com/photos/501rf/5443487934/in/set-72157625927...

(This is a 0.6 second single exposure from a tripod.)

More fun with Lightroom. As the title strongly hints, I used the selenium preset for this one.

(Large On Black)

I completely relied on the selenium meter on the Vitomatic IIa for this shot. Apparently, it is still working accurately enough even for tricky light conditions.

Shot in Ferberpark, Aachen, Germany.

Camera: Voigtländer Vitomatic IIa, ca. 1962

Lens: Ultron 50 mm f/2.0

Kodak Portra 800 colour negative film

Developed and scanned by www.meinfilmlab.de

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Shot in infra-red, then converted to selenium tone in Lr.

This is a lith printed image at the "other" herring factory near Djupovik. I decided to get some of the "new" fomatone and try to duplicate the old fomatone. I developed in Moresch and did an afterbath of ammonium carbonate (Moersch's omega additive) plus heavy selenium and that is about as close as I got...still missing the very cold shadows I loved. Contrary to what I've heard on the web, though, this stuff does lith....not nearly as convincingly or with as much color, though. Sorry about the lousy scan....my scanner doesn't like Fomatone Velvet paper!