first tonering (selenium) experience

[Jaap Los <imagefotografie@xxxxxx>]

Att. Tim Rudman and other tonering fans

Bought a bottle of Kodak Rapid Selenium toner, diluted 1+5, temp. appr.
30 degrees Celsius. After tonering a Sterling Lith picture for appr. 8
minutes I noticed very tiny change in the blacks, which became a bit
more intensified. Hardly any difference as compared with the original
paper. For the rest nothing happened. No plummy brown colours, nothing! 

Secondly I tried a picture of glasses (about similar to the one in the
footer of this message) printed on Ilford MG V fibre paper (so no lith).
After 8 minutes in the same tonering bath I noticed a little shift
towards very faint violet as compared with the original paper. So also
in this case no dramatic colour changes.

My question: what went wrong? Or is this the way it works out? Having
read Tim's book I expected something else! 
-- 
Greetings,
Jaap Los

See also my Infrared Photography Homepage specially made for you with
lots of information, infrared/lith pictures and links to other
interesting infrared-photography sites.
at:   http://home.wxs.nl/~losjb/hometest.html

If you want to see the difference between an ordinary and a lith print
from the same negative (a composition in glasses) click on the following
addresses:   http://home.wxs.nl/~losjb/glasses1.jpg
             http://home.wxs.nl/~losjb/glasses2.jpg

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