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Larry
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Registered: April 2009 Location: Maidenhead Berkshire Posts: 269
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Hi Rob
I really like your photo, it's full of character. A couple of questions:
a) You've done well with PAN 50+. What ISO did you use?
b) Prescysol EF - is this a staining developer, or did you tone the print, either way, it's very effective in tone on my monitor.
c) What was your workflow process.
"Sizewell Steps" need more than a new paint job but you've captured it well and has a certain charm of time gone by.
------------------------------ Larry
http://www.larrygalliford.co.uk
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Rob Archer
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Registered: September 2008 Location: Kings Lynn, Norfolk - flatlands and big skies. Posts: 1,244
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Larry. I rated the PanF+ at 40. In future I will rate it at 25 as shadow detail is not as strong as I would have prefered (although this may be down to the ancient camera meter!)
Precycsol EF is a staining developer produced by Peter Hogan of Monochrome Photography (there will be a link here somewhere) It's the first staining developer I've used and I can see me using a lot more.
The print is toned in thiocarbamide(sepia) then selenium. The process I use is:
Dev, stop, wash and fix the print as normal.
Short bleach in a ferricyanide bleach (I use one from a fotospeed sepia toning kit but diluted 1:19 rather than 1:9 as per the instructions. Bleach until highlight detail just starts to disappear.
I then re-wash the print and put in in the second toning bath, standard commercial sepia toner from the kit, or on this case a home-brewed version.
I then wash the print for 20 minutes
Selenium toner for as long as it takes until I like the tone!
Wash for 1 hour, dry as normal
Hope that makes sense.
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Larry
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Registered: April 2009 Location: Maidenhead Berkshire Posts: 269
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Hello Rob,
Thanks for getting back to us with your answers. At some point I must have a go at print toning sometime, it should work well with my regular paper Fotospeed RCVC. In the past I've used PAN F+ and like you noticed retaining shadow detail is not that great at boxed speed. It's better at ISO 25, at least it was when I used FD10 film developer, almost a requirement in bright sunshine.
Cheers, one again it's a nice print and thanks for your response.
------------------------------ Larry
http://www.larrygalliford.co.uk
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Mike O'Pray
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Registered: October 2008 Location: Daventry, Northants Posts: 8,969
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Thu, 5, May, 2011 10:32pm
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Great shot Rob and well toned. My son went on a geography field trip to study coastal erosion and was fascinated by the phenomenon you mention.
I take it that the washing time refers to FB paper? I might think again about trying sepia and selenium if this is the time required for RC!
Thanks
Mike
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