Does anyone have photo examples of the color shifts available from toning albumen prints in different ways?
I have been playing with selenium because it's cheap and I have it but I'm curious what's possible with gold, platinum and the combination but don't want to spend the money for the chemicals until I have a goal in mind. In this book, the author talks extensively about the shifts from gold and platinum but with no examples:
https://cool.culturalheritage.org/al...lly/chap8.html
Here's what I've found for selenium toning with sodium chloride albumin paper. With no toning, the dark tones are reddish brown:
With 45s in Ilford selenium tonier @ 10:1 dilution, the red brown converts to chocolate brown and gets a shade darker. The highlights take on a slight pinkish tint that is undesirable but the overall effect is much better than untoned in terms of color and contrast:
Beyond 45 seconds, the dark tones don't get any darker or change color but the highlights get stained yellow:
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