Nikon FE

Nikkor 50mm f/2

Kodak Tri-X 400

Developed in HC-110

Scan from print

Paper: Fomaspeed var. 312

Toned in selenium

North Carolina Outer Banks wild horse.

Pentax KX / 55mm f2 / Fuji Neopan SS / HC110 / Silver gelatin lith print, 2011. 5x12" on 11x14 Fomabrom 112 in Arista Lith, Moersch MT3, Selenium.

Scanned silver gelatin print.

Double exposure on Fomapan 100 4x5", Graflex Crown Graphic w/ Optar 135 mm/f4.7.

Printed on Fotokemica Varycon (18x24 cm) and toned in Selenium. Nov, 2020.

First time I've bleached a negative.

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

A different shot of The Wherry at Whitburn - given a Selenium treatment in Silver Efex Pro

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

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Hasselblad 501 C/M with Kodak Tri-X 400 developed in Pyro-48

Printed on Select Sepia VC (PE)

Developed in Eco 4812

Selenium 1+10

MT3 (B)

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Rolleiflex sl 66, delta 400, d76 1+1

Ilford multigrade fb classic 5k mat

PQ universal

stop bath water

Alkaline Fixer

Selenium-sepia duotone with dilute bleach bath

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

I realized I needed to work harder on my darkroom skills, if I want to get just a little bit close to the epic landscapes of Don McCullin.

So over the last couple of weeks, I've been teaching myself dodging and burning techniques and more elaborate use of filters for contrast control in the darkroom.

Bottom half is printed grade hard (magenta), sky is burned grade soft (yellow). Toned in selenium 1:19, 3:00 minutes.

… or perhaps selenium would be more accurate (it’s kind of a bluey purple).

This wobbly was taken in May at the RHS gardens at Wisley, from under shady trees looking out on a bright sunny day.

The result was quite curious with this rainfall effect. It reminds me of the pixel sort function that you get in some distortion apps like MirrorLab even though it’s a straight ICM. Normally I don’t get a result that is quite so textured. As the shutter was quite fast there would have been only one movement: straight up (or possible down). The Mistress Serendipity was at play again :)

I tried rendering it in monochrome and was surprised at the result. I thought you might lose the sense of trees but they are still there. I’ve recently previewed more of my wobbly takes in black and white, and some of them seem to work quite well. So that’s another thing for me to explore in my 100x project this year.

Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy 100 and Donnerstagmonochrom :)

[Hand wobbled in bright daylight.

Developed in Capture One.

Processed in Affinity with heavy sharpening.

Converted to monochrome in Nik Silver Efex with a light selenium toning, playing a lot with brightness and contrast to get a pleasant balance between the rain and the texturing in the foreground grass, while maximising the rain textures...]

2013 photograph, 2015 print. From roaming around northern Michgan at one of Bill Schwab's annual Photostock events. He has sadly passed away, and I'm remembering how he inspired me to go out with a camera and try to make beautiful things with it, and how grateful I am to have received that gift from him.

Pentax KX / SMC 35mm f3.5 / Agfa APX 400 (the original) / Rodinal 1+25 / 9x12" silver gelatin print on 11x14" Ilford MGIV fiber matte / light bleach back followed by Moersch MT3 and Harman Selenium (for a twinkle of highlight glow)

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

Hasselblad 501cm, Sonnar 150mm.

Window light

Ilford HP5 in Xtol, N + 1. 14:15 min.

Printed on Ilford MG and developed in Dektol. Finally toned in thiourea and selenium.

barber time...

Rolleiflex sl 66,delta 400, D76 1+1

Ilford multigrade fb classic 5k

Ilford Multigrade develop

24x30cm/ 20x20

stop bath water

Alkaline Fixer

Selenium toner 1+18 2min

Sepia toner 2min

Fomabrom 111 FB paper, Selenium and Sepia toned

(... in selenium colour shade...)

View On Black

in Explore Jan 17, 2009

Sometimes I think I'm creeping or crawling... ever and ever again...

but it makes me happy in a way... so please don't wonder...-

meet me beneath... on the floor...

Ilford XP2

Lith print on Fomatone 133(current) Moersch SE5 50+50+100OB+900 then Selenium

Graflex with front element of Kodak Anastigmat 152/6.3

A woman stands at the side of the road waiting for a tricycle to pick her up. I shot this image while riding shotgun in a tricycle along a busy road. Vintage selenium toning applied.

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Agfa Isolette III with Kodak Tri-X 400 developed in Pyrocat-HD.

Printed on Kodak Ektalure (G)

Two trays lith:

SE5/D/E - Ω/NH4Cl/B

Selenium toned

Stanton Moor.

A selenium toned image.

Darkroom print of 35mm negative on Foma 112 RC, slightly toned in sepia and selenium.

Ilford FP4+ in D76 1+1 for 11:00 minutes. Camera: Nikon F-801s with 50mm/1.8 AF-D.

This is a Selenium version of an earlier post. I have been studying B&W photography lately and thought of trying it out on this.

Thanks guys for helping make this image to FP (Highest was at No. 8). Cheers! Have a great weekend!

Location: Manila Bay from the Folk Arts Theatre breakwater

Taken at the Gran Paradiso, looking at the Levanne mountain range opposite the valley. Near Ceresole Reale, Piemonte, Italy.

Taken with a Canon F1n on Ilford FP4. Self-developed in Tetenal Ultrafin.

Printed with a DurstM670, on Ilford MGIV RC, developed in AM6006, selenium toned.

'Scanned' with an iPhone

I shot the same scenery in color:

www.flickr.com/photos/14202200@N00/51177955225/in/datepos...

and

www.flickr.com/photos/14202200@N00/51174302801/in/datepos...

a comparsion

Adox Vario Classic in Amidol plus (two tray with Catechol with 10ml Finisher Blue/litre working solution) each one minute

MT3 Vario Schwefeltoner: bleach 1+200 2 mins, toner setting A bright yellow 30 secs (middle)

followed by MT1 Selenium toner 1+20 2 mins (right)

I don´t know why, Amidol prints are particularly susceptible for every kind of toning.

view large (2420 x 800) to find the home- could take time to load

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

Got myself a "new" old camera on a flea market in Stockholm during my holiday: a Franka Solida II with Ennagon lens in reasonable condition.

This shot was handheld in low light, f4 and 1/50 sec if I remember well.

Darkroom print on expired Agfa Brovira grade 1, slightly toned in selenium and sepia.

Sutter Creek, CA -

BHF, inverted lens

Forte paper, selenium toned

TMY2 in Tanol Speed

Polychromeprint onto Kodak Ektalure GD + selenium + polysulphide

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Silver gelatin prints available on request.

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

Photograph 2014. Printed 2015.

In our yard we always tried to have plants that were native to the oak savannah that once covered the landscape of the Midwest in Minnesota. The pollinators loved them, and in some small way I imagine it helped keep their populations healthy. If pollinators die, humans die.

Hasselblad 500 C/M / 80mm T* Planar / 16mm close-up ring / Fuji Neopan 400 / Harvey's Panthermic 777 / 12x12" silver gelatin print on 16x20" Ilford MGIV fiber glossy / replenished Ethol LPD / Moersch MT3 / Harman Selenium

Ireland

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Hasselblad 501 C/M with Kodak Tri-X 400 developed in Pyrocat-HD

Printed on Foma 133

Developed in Catechol / Sepia

Selenium / MT3

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

Photograph 2018, printed 2019.

Johannisdom, Vienna.

Pentax KX / 35mm SMC f2 / Ilford HP5+ / replenished Kodak Xtol / 6x9" silver gelatin print on 8x10" Agfa Brovira Grade 4 / replenished Ethol LPD / Harman Selenium

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

Thanks for the tip, @Barry Haines. Need to figure out how to better reduce the noise....

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

30x40 cm dark room print on Foma 112, toned in selenium and 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.

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

This print was slightly lighter than the previous example before toning.

Polychrome print on Forte PW15

1st toner SE1 Selenium 1+20 2 mins on the left,

2nd toner MT10 Gold (16th print in 450ml) 2 mins - not a good idea, because the print was already too dark for this toning, the density increases considerably as expected. A wrong decision, but an example to demonstrate what happens and how such results can be corrected.

On the right, an attempt to lighten a print that was far too dark. Because there is still enough untoned silver after the gold toning, it can be bleached with Ferricyanide and then fixed.

Ferricyanide-Bromide bleach 1+100 1:30 mins, ATS Fixer 1+5 15 secs.

Result: reddish Selenium shadows and bluish lights (much bluer than before bleaching).

A drawback is the excessive brightening of the highlights if bleaching is carried out until the lower mid tones are brightened as desired.

National Museum - Edinburgh

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Hasselblad 501 C/M with Kodak Tri-X 400 developed in Pyrocat-HD

Printed on Foma 131

Developed in Catechol/sepia

Toned in Selenium/MT3

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Super Isolette, Tri-x in efd,

Select Sepia VC (PW15),

two tray Lith and Catechol,

untoned on the left,

two toners on the right

1st MT1 Selenium 1+20 one minute,

2nd MT10 Gold two minutes.

Acadia National Park, Maine

This is a lith of a previously posted image.

Lith Photo

Selenium toned

Holga Camera

Tri-X Film