one more comment. it just occurred to me that i watched a friend use Potassium Ferricyanide in a brushing technique on a waterfall image. He wanted to give the water a bit of sparkle. He essentially brushed the solution onto the areas in that print he wanted to highlight then immediately washed the solution away with a hose. He repeated this sequence until he achieved his goal. Am I recalling this accurately? Does that make sense to you?
Fascinating. I’ve been working in the dark room, using the bleach and redevelop sepia toner for years but I didn’t know you could use it in these other variations. Anytime you want to write more about toners, I’m all ears.
My photography teacher, Diego Ortiz Mugica (who studied with John Sexton), uses ferricyanide to locally accentuate highlights in some prints. He has a variety of brushes and sponges in different sizes and applies it very carefully. In one hand he holds the brush, and in the other a hose with water, with which he rinses the print after applying the ferricyanide.
It’s almost as if he were painting with light in some way. Always very carefully, because of course it’s irreversible and can damage the print. It’s a beautiful process to watch, which he performs in the darkroom under the safelight.
I really enjoy your articles. Thank you very much.
I bleached an area of a print recently then re fixed . It seemed to be getting lighter in the fix , then realised that with my gloves on I had dropped the bleach soaked make up swab into the fixer . That's a new one !
A really nice writeup and some wonderful examples.
Thank you Doug.
Great!
Thank you.
I plan to share this with a few of my fellow darkroom warriors. Comprehensive.
Thanks Mark.
one more comment. it just occurred to me that i watched a friend use Potassium Ferricyanide in a brushing technique on a waterfall image. He wanted to give the water a bit of sparkle. He essentially brushed the solution onto the areas in that print he wanted to highlight then immediately washed the solution away with a hose. He repeated this sequence until he achieved his goal. Am I recalling this accurately? Does that make sense to you?
Yes Mark, that is the way to judge progress and to stop it running away with itself.
Fascinating. I’ve been working in the dark room, using the bleach and redevelop sepia toner for years but I didn’t know you could use it in these other variations. Anytime you want to write more about toners, I’m all ears.
Thanks Troy.
My photography teacher, Diego Ortiz Mugica (who studied with John Sexton), uses ferricyanide to locally accentuate highlights in some prints. He has a variety of brushes and sponges in different sizes and applies it very carefully. In one hand he holds the brush, and in the other a hose with water, with which he rinses the print after applying the ferricyanide.
It’s almost as if he were painting with light in some way. Always very carefully, because of course it’s irreversible and can damage the print. It’s a beautiful process to watch, which he performs in the darkroom under the safelight.
I really enjoy your articles. Thank you very much.
Thank you Eugenio.
Cool technique!
Thank you.
I have never tried using farmers reducer. This is an interesting subject.
Isn’t this a great thing, to e able to highlight a photograph by using this method? Bringing the blacks back to llife as if resurrecting a photograph.
Thank you so much for your knowledge!
Thank you Luz.
I bleached an area of a print recently then re fixed . It seemed to be getting lighter in the fix , then realised that with my gloves on I had dropped the bleach soaked make up swab into the fixer . That's a new one !
Haha, so many things to pay attention to.
.. will return for a proper read .. esoteric WoW ! 🦎🏴☠️📡
Thanks Thomas.