Black and White Photo Art.

Gold Tones applied will change the Print very little, just enough to remove the slight color cast present in most prints and leave a deep, rich red-orange tint. While the color is changed only slightly, the richness and brilliance of the Print increased noticealby, an effect that is easily seen if the Gold Tone Print is compared to a similar one that is untoned.
The color of any Toned Print depends on many factors, such as the type of paper, type of developer, development time, type and dilution of Toner and Toning time. Careful work pays off in Hand Toning. I have developed my "2" Zone technique to minimize the risk in involved. The laws of my newly developed "2" Zone Technique can be easily mastered.

Hand Toning of Black and White Photos involves immersing the print in a chemical toner solution is a optional process that can have several effects on a print. Some times a print is toned in order to cause a distinct change in the color of the silver image.
The color of any toned print depends on many factors, such as the type of paper, type of developer, development time, type and dilution of toner and toning time. Commercially available toners can change the image color to various shades of brown, blue, red or orange. Most toners are used primarily to increase the life of the print by preventing deterioration of the Silver image. [URL=http://www.oneeyeskinny.com/photo_1.html

I want to bring Hand Tinting back in the main stream. Since we have our computers and high tech soft ware we fail to realize that computer generated imagery or photos are not the same as in the past. The reason is, that the computer lacks Zone "A" and Zone "B". Its merely a copy. All computer generated photos or prints will oxidize or fade. The sole purpose of making Photographs are to record and document historical events. Archiving Photos that are computer generated defeats this goal. In museums you will only find Black and White Photos, they know that any other type of print won't last long enough to achieve their objective.
When we look back in the early 1800's we see images that were produced that still exist today. What if our Great masters used pixels to record there Art. They would have never dreamed of wasting there time and effort to gain fame by employing methods other than the Classical techniques to create their Art. When history is written, those who have negatives and Hand developed Prints will have works of Arts that will be priceless.
The Great masters such Van Goghs, Picasso's, rembrandts, Cezanne's, Seraut's, El greco,s, Constables, Botticellis, Angelico's and Bounnarroti's would not exist today as we know them if they had used digital assisted soft ware to create their works of Art. I have over 50,000 images and over 90,000 negatives that will be worth more than any digital print made today.
Photo Art has been around in the main stream for quite some time. No one has change or improved on what George Eastman, Joeseph Niepce, Giovanni Battista, Thomas Wedgwood and Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre attempted . The computer can never allow any one the freedom that gives you the ability to capture an image as on sees it. Ansel Adams was the last person to that gave us a new set of rules and technique.
I have develop a "2" Zone that takes his ideas and the other great Photographers of the past and improve how we see and reproduce our Photos.
Don't miss out, if you can have the luck of buying a old Photo of the past, you will own tommorrows Picassos' Van Goghs' or even an Rembrandt.
The only worth while investment in todays Art Market will be a Hand Tinted Photograph. The other Great works of Art merely exchange owners and becomes more expensive in the process.

I am in my Dark room developing Black and white Photos the classic way. Never computer aided in any way.
I am an old school Photographer. I use only roll film.I have a dark room. I develop my prints the Classic way.