All my prints are produced in what these days is called a “wet” darkroom.
I print on fibre based paper and use traditional B&W printing methods of contrast and tone control. Trying to create images that are more expressive than conventional B&W images.
To do this I often Lith print, and also use a variety of toners to create the final prints.
Lith printing is a simple but alternative Black & White printing technique, using black and white negatives, a suitable black & white paper and Lith developer. It involves heavily overexposing the black and white paper and then only partially developing it in a highly diluted lith developer.
The toners I use are:
Selenium, can give anything from a warm or plum colour to a print. Dependent on the paper, dilution and the time in the toner.
Gold, despite its name gold toner produces a subtle blue tone with chlorobromide papers.
Sepia. Is the classic brown toner, varied by dilution.
Used in combination with each other a infinate variety of tones and colours can be obtained.
All are archival and increase the stability and permanence of the print.
I routinely tone B&W prints with selenium to give increased dmax and to prolong the life of the print.
The image on the site have been scanned from original prints into Adobe CS5 and saved for the web as 72dpi sRGB jpgs.
I print on fibre based paper and use traditional B&W printing methods of contrast and tone control. Trying to create images that are more expressive than conventional B&W images.
To do this I often Lith print, and also use a variety of toners to create the final prints.
Lith printing is a simple but alternative Black & White printing technique, using black and white negatives, a suitable black & white paper and Lith developer. It involves heavily overexposing the black and white paper and then only partially developing it in a highly diluted lith developer.
The toners I use are:
Selenium, can give anything from a warm or plum colour to a print. Dependent on the paper, dilution and the time in the toner.
Gold, despite its name gold toner produces a subtle blue tone with chlorobromide papers.
Sepia. Is the classic brown toner, varied by dilution.
Used in combination with each other a infinate variety of tones and colours can be obtained.
All are archival and increase the stability and permanence of the print.
I routinely tone B&W prints with selenium to give increased dmax and to prolong the life of the print.
The image on the site have been scanned from original prints into Adobe CS5 and saved for the web as 72dpi sRGB jpgs.