Hand Colored Photos
wgriffin1
warm tone and was great for coloring your photos. Is there any other
paper on the market that has a tooth that can be used for coloring
with Marshall Oils?
I would preferred regular photo paper processed using chemicals. I
would appreciate any one's advice who had good results.
Richard Knoppow
You might look at the Freestyle catalogue. I believe
Ilford makes warm tone paper and they have some papers made
by Kentmere which may be just what you are looking for.
I've used this paper under the Freestyle house brand Arista.
Agfa Portriga Rapid was a favorite of mine but is long gone.
Agfa discontinued it, and other warm tone papers, some time
ago. I don't know the exact reason but the fact that Kodak
also discontinued Ektalure at about the same time suggests
the rumor that it was due to some environmentally hazardous
substance used in their manufacture, perhaps a Cadmium
compound.
The papers available through Freestyle have a neutral
colored base without brighteners which should be OK.
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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles, CA, USA
dick...@ix.netcom.com
wgriffin1
I know I can count on you for good advice. It so good to know that
some one else had the experience with hand coloring. I used the
extalure X it wa a wonderful paper.
Walter
Richard Knoppow
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From: "wgriffin1" <wgri...@gmail.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 12:16 PM
Subject: Re: Hand Colored Photos
>
> Thanks Richard,
> I know I can count on you for good advice. It so good to
> know that
> some one else had the experience with hand coloring. I
> used the
> extalure X it wa a wonderful paper.
> Walter
>
Kodak used to make some wonderful warm tone papers.
Ektalure could produce a nearly brown tone directly when the
right developer was used. Many years ago, when I started
out, I used a lot of Opal, a very slow warm tone paper. It
was available in only normal contrast grade but probably 20
combinations of textures, surfaces, and stock tints,
including X, which I think was called tapestry.
I've seen hand colored photos that looked like oil
paintings and some that look like full color photos. This is
much more skill than I ever had. The best I can do is the
familiar tinted picture. Oil coloring was quite popular up
to the time that color photography became reasonably cheap
and available, say the 1970's.
If you can't get the right image color from direct
development its possible you might be able to get it from
toning. There are two toners which produce toning which is
reasonably uniform in different densities. One is the
familiar Kodak Brown Toner (Agfa Viradon is/was virtually
identical), the other is Nelson's Gold Toner which you have
to mix youself. It was licensed to both Kodak and Agfa/Ansco
who published the formulas and instructions, but was never
put up in packaged form. The best source of instruction for
Nelson's is the patent USP 1,849,245
You can get this from the U.S.Patent and Trademark Office
site at http://www.uspto.gov or from Google Patents. If you
can't find it I will send you a PDF via private e-mail.
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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles, CA, USA