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Rob Archer



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These steps are part of the estate of Sizewell hall in Suffolk. They are getting closer to the edge of the cliff every year, and I suspect are now beyond serious repair. I liked the sense of time catching up on them as they age and appear to be being engulfed by the dark bushes behind them. It was the first time I had used Prescysol EF with PanF+ and it seems to have controlled the high contrast quite well, with detail even in the darkest shadows. It was taken on a 1960s Konica Auto S2 rangefinder, which I'm finding suits this type of shot.
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Larry

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Location: Maidenhead Berkshire
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Mon, 2, May, 2011 5:02pm

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.

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Rob Archer

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Mon, 2, May, 2011 8:23pm

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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Tue, 3, May, 2011 8:58pm

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.

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Thu, 5, May, 2011 10:32pm

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


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