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

Mounted Focomat V35 print.

I'm still without a scanner hence the snapshot.

Mounted 9.5x12" selenium-toned silver gelatin print.

I'm spending as much time as possible in the darkroom these days, printing new work.

I hope you're all having fun!

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.

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

Rolleiflex sl 66, HP5, 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

"bird highway"

Rolleiflex sl 66, Delta 400, d76 1+1

Ilford multigrade fb classic 5k

Ilford Multigrade develop

24x30cm/ 20x20

stop bath water

Alkaline Fixer

selenium sepia split toning

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

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

Somehow, I urgently needed to make this image. Can't really explain why, but it turned as it should. I'm looking for serenity, but of a slightly disturbing kind, something might happen....

The Robert Rigby 4x5" pinhole camera, new Fomapan 400 film, printed on Rollei Vintage warm tone RC, toned in selenium and just a bit of 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

… 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...]

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.

Photograph 2018, printed 2019.

Photo of the famous Transamerica Building in San Francisco. It's such a great city to walk around with a camera.

Leica M2 / 35mm Voigtländer Nokton Classic / Ilford HP5+ / replenished Kodak Xtol / 6x8" silver gelatin print on 8x10" Agfa Brovira G6 / replenished Ethol LPD / split toned in Moersch MT3 and Harman Selenium

2018 SF Transamerica Bldg 01 Brovira G6 2019

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

Rolleiflex sl 66, delta 400, D76 1+1

Ilford multigrade fb classic 1k 24x30cm/ 20x20cm

PQ universal

stop bath water

Alkaline Fixer

Selenium toner 1+24 2min.

Sepia toner 2min.

I would like to prepare a photo exhibition.

If you would like to help me with this project, you can write to me.

The silver print is looking for a new home. ;-)

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

(... 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

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

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

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.

HP5 dev in Rodinal 1+25 6x9cm

Print Fomatone 532

Moersch Easylith 1+20

Plus 2 stops 8mins

Selenium 1min

91/2x12 print. My enlarger doesn't go to 6x9cm so 6x7cm crop

Hurrah back in my darkroom.

Stanton Moor.

A selenium toned image.

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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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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

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

Nikon FE

Nikkor 50mm f/2

Kodak Tri-X 400

Developed in HC-110

Scan from print

Paper: Fomaspeed var. 312

Toned in selenium

Sutter Creek, CA -

BHF, inverted lens

Forte paper, selenium toned

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

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.

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...

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

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

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

30x40 cm dark room print on Foma 112, 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

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.

Acadia National Park, Maine

This is a lith of a previously posted image.

Lith Photo

Selenium toned

Holga Camera

Tri-X Film

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