William Robb wrote:
> Ilford makes a warm toned paper, but I can't get
> it to work for me. The colour is very creamy,
> but I didn't get a lot of depth out of it. This
> is not to say you shouldn't try it. I have
> always liked the Ilford RC papers, even with the
> bronzing.
Are you using filters for contrast, or a colour head?
My first experience with Ilford's Warmtone FB was awful...contrast
jumped like mad between an overly flat 2 1/2 and an overly contrasty
3...then I got an Ilford filter set, and everything was okay. The paper
just didn't play nice with Agfa's filter set (and I imagine the Kodak
set, too, since the Kodak and Agfa sets are nearly identical in appearance).
A buddy and I spent two months in the darkroom every third day or so
working with Ilford Warmtone FB...we were doing our finals for second
year at Sheridan in the Portraiture course, and the instructor was
always easy to impress with a great print (and we both needed the grade
to survive). So anyhow, the combination we finally hit on was Ilford
Warmtone FB glossy (dried semi-matte) developed in a mix of half Edwal
Ultra Black 1:10-ish and half Agfa Neutol WA (the warm one) 1:5-ish,
which gave us a gloriously rich, detailed black and a lovely dark
chocolate brown tone to the print. We were both printing Agfapan 25
that had been developed in Rodinal 1:50, medium format.
Man, that was fun.
-Aaron
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