Re: first tonering (selenium) experience

[Peter De Smidt <pdesmidt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jaap Los wrote:
> 
> 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!
> --

Jaap,

Different papers respond very differently to selenium toner.  For
example, most of Ilford's papers don't exhibit much tonal shift,
although their warmtone paper does.  In general warm tone papers show
the most pronounced changes.  Forte and Bergger papers also tone quite
well (i.e. give a range of colored tones) in my experience.

Regards,
Peter De Smidt
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