Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/03/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]That is exactly what I mean Alistair. AFAIK there are two kinds of split toning. One, which I haven't tried, involves using more than one type of toner; the other, simpler, kind is also called partial toning. Some warm-toned papers work very well with this. I've found that with Forte fiber based Polywarmtone VC paper (as well as with the corresponding Forte RC paper) 2 minutes in 1:15 Kodak Rapid Selenium Toner produces a subtile warm-toned effect, 6 minutes (or so) produces a partial or 'split' toned effect where darker tones are quite brown while lighter terms remain gray. Longer toning produces an overall warm brown. It's simply a matter of watching the color change in the toner and removing the print when it seems ready I first noticed this effect (by accident) a couple of year ago when a Hungarian friend gave me a sample of Forte warm-toned RC paper. Previously, i had been using Kodak RST because, I read , it increased the permanence of RC prints. On the Freestyle Arista and Adorama re-labeled versions of Ilford Multigrade I had been using there was virtually no color change with selenium--OTOH the color change with Forte paper was quite striking. IMO split toning works very well with some images. For example, in http://www.FGPAonline.com/rm/Groton_VT_II.jpg The distant New Hampshire 'White Mountains' and the sky are rendered in gray while the closer Vermont mountains and pond are quite brown. In http://www.FGPAonline.com/rm/Groton_VT_I.jpg The sky, fence post and galvanized metal watering trough remain gray against a warm brown background. In both prints like the increased separation produced by the color difference. I've used this effect in two more of the 24 prints in my show at Gallery 718--more might be overdoing it. I make no claims to be a 'master' printer and I'm sure that many other LUGers can explain split toning far better than I can. Also, I'm sure that many warm-toned papers other than Forte may be used. However, I'm so taken with Forte Polywarmtone fiber paper that I'm planning on using it for everything once my stocks of Adorama RC and fiber paper are used up. Bob Marvin At 1:44 PM -0800 3/2/03, Alastair Firkin wrote: >Robert, could you tell me a little more about the "split-toning": do >you mean that only part of the image was "toned"? > >Nice collection > >Cheers >> >>From: Robert Marvin <marvbej@earthlink.net> >> >>- -- >>I'd like to invite all LUGers in the NYC area to the opening >>reception of a joint show Marcia Lloyd and I have on Friday, March >>7th, from 6--9 PM at Gallery 718, 164 Fifth Avenue (@Lincoln Place) >>in Park Slope, Brooklyn. >> >>The show will run from March 1--31. If you can't make the opening >>reception, please try to stop by during March. >> >>To keep this slightly on topic, 8 of my 24 photographs were taken >>with a Leica IIIf. >> >>Samples of work by Marcia and I may be seen at: >> >>http://www.FGPAonline.com/Lloyd.html >> >>http://www.FGPAonline.com/Marvin.html (I posted this URL in error >>about a month ago, but now I'm doing it on purpose :-) >> >> >>Bob Marvin - -- - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html