sepia toning – Koraks tinkers

Brownies get the blues – Combining Van Dyke brown and cyanotype

This sort of emerged as I was playing with, and I’m actually quite happy with what I ended up with – unintentionally. It’s a combination of Van Dyke brown prints and cyanotypes that allows for the image tone to be set at virtually any point on the ocher-cyan axis. It’s also quite easy, reasonably quick, affordable and can be done with a high degree of consistency.

Shades of brown – Controlling sepia toning hue

Sepia toning is about as old as silver-based photography, and it still works as nicely as it did back then. In fact, it works even nicer since the advent of ‘odorless’ sepia toners based on thiourea. Apart from a more pleasant olfactory experience, these toners can be used to control the hue of the end result quite easily. Here’s how.