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.

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.

Kingsgate Footbridge above the River Wear in Durham City with a Selenium B&W finish. The student Union Building is on the left

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

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

Scanned print.

Rolleiflex T w/ Tessar 75 mm/f3.5 + yellow filter.

Fomapan 100 in Rodinal 1+100, semistand 1 h.

Printed on unknown single weight glossy fiber paper and toned in Moersch MT8 Copper toner after shadow-protecting toning in Selenium.

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.

(... 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...

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.

A rehearsal with Selenium hue preset...

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

kodak cresta/t-max100 Moersch Lith - arista matt 20x25cm selenium toned

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.

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

Fomabrom 111 FB paper, Selenium and Sepia toned

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

Sutter Creek, CA -

BHF, inverted lens

Forte paper, selenium toned

Darkroom print on Fomabrom 111 with well seasoned WA Print developer, followed by toning in Selenium 1+19

Negative: Adox CHS II, developed in Rodinal 1:25 for 6:00 minutes

Camera: Hasselblad 500 c/m with 2.8/80mm Planar and 3x yellow filter

Previously uploaded as a negative scan.

Technical details: Foma 111 FB paper souped in Adotol WA warm tone developer, followed by Adox Selenium 1+19 and Foma Sepia 1+19 A (15 sec) and 1+19 B (1 minute)

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

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.

Bei der Goldtonung von Lithprints legen alle Tonwerte an Dichte zu. Deshalb habe ich diesen Print 2/10 Blendenstufen kürzer belichtet.

When toning lith prints with gold, all tonal values increase in density. That is why I exposed this print 2/10 f-stops less.

Paper Select Ivory (PW17)

1st SE5 Lith 30+30+20+1000 ml 5 minutes.

2nd Pyrocatechol 10 ml + Lith B 15 ml + NH4Cl 20% 5 ml + Lith D 1 ml + water 800 ml 4:15 minutes.

1st toner MT1 Selenium 1+10 1 minute

2nd MT10 Gold toner 2:30 minutes.

FP4 4x5 in DDX.

16x12 Lithprint Foma Retrobrom in Moersch SE5 1+15 with 100ml OB light selenium tone.

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.

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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

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...

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.

Silver gelatin prints available on request.

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

2009 photograph, printed 2011.

Pentax KX / 50mm f1.4 / Kodak TMax 100 / Edwal 12 / 9x12" silver gelatin print on 11x14" Foma Fomabrom Variant 112 / replenished Ethol LPD / bleach back and redevelopment in Moersch MT3 and Harman Selenium

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

Graflex Crown Graphic on Kodak Plus-X, expired in 1980. It is severely affected by mould, but fortunately I like the effect.

Darkroom print on Rollei Vintage RC 332 with some dodging. Selenium toned to get rid of some of the green hues.

This is my last batch of this paper, it is not available anymore at Macodirect

Acadia National Park, Maine

This is a lith of a previously posted image.

Lith Photo

Selenium toned

Holga Camera

Tri-X Film

Stanton Moor.

A selenium toned image.

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

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

HP5 ID-11

Lith on Retrobrom

Moersch Easy Lith 40+40+100OB+800water

Selenium tone

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.

K with her best friend. Photograph from 2014.

Hasselblad 500C / 80mm Planar / Ilford Delta 3200 / replenished Kodak Xtol / 9x9" silver gelatin print on 11x14" Ilford MGIV fiber matte / replenished Ethol LPD / very lightly toned in Moersch MT-3 and Harman Selenium

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

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

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

Selenium tint in Lightroom.

13th January 1979, when winters were winters!

Agfa CT18 colour slide copy.

DSC03712-HDR_Lr9-2

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

Printed on Ilford Art 300

Developed in Catechol/Sepia

Toned in Selenium / MT3

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

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My Mother's Love rose in Selenium colours along with a wee spider inside her. The Roses will be on display at Flemington today to almost no-one other than the horses, trainer, strappers and officials! Happy Melbourne Cup holiday - a 30 degree day coming up!