Re: Albumen toning questions

[Eric Nelson <emanmb@yahoo.com>]

> 2. I thought there would probably be other toners to
> try besides gold...
> but they aren't mentioned.  How about selenium? 
> Polytoner?
> 
> 3. He's been toning AFTER fixing. Is the color
> different if you tone
> before fixing?
> 
> 4. How do you decide whether to tone before or after
> fixing?  Some people
> do one, some the other. Why?


I've only done the "before" method for
"achivalosity"/not knowing any better.  There is a
formula in Reilly's book for toning w/platinum which
goes to a chocolat brown rather than the purplish
browns of gold.  
Also a great web
resource--->http://albumen.stanford.edu/

My experience w/selenium and albumen is to start w/ a
weak solution as the one time I tried that I used a
conventional silver gelatin dilution and the results
were green and yellow looking.

Eric Nelson
Chicago

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