Foma Warmtone

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I got 10 sheets of Foma MG Classic FB Warmtone through a couple of days ago & was playing about with it today. I really wasn't expecting it to be what it is! The base is yellow. Not a subtle warmtone yellow like Ilford's, but yellow yellow. It's lovely, but only for certain things. I was shocked when I first tried it & thought it was f***ed! :lol: I can imagine I'll only use it once every few weeks.

It reacts very well to lith though, with 'old brown' as they call it (basically just nearly-exhausted lith dev with no new stuff mixed in) it yields very nice pink/orange tones. I was playing about with solarising & switching between lith dev & normal dev - very good! My skin in it (self portrait) went a sort of Man Ray-ish platinum thing, while it brought the white background right down to almost black with some weird streaky foggy cloud things because of switching between developers.

What I was doing was - Lith -- dev -- lith -- solarise @ enlarger -- lith-- dev -- lith. All in it took about half an hour the develop. Seperation lines were very subtle, probably because I solarised in the lith developer) & are only really apparent at the black borders.

I realise this is a completely useless thread at the moment - I'll try & find the time to scan the prints I made with it tomorrow & post them here!

-J
 
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I used to do Lithe dev in my DR days, cant remember the name of the paper Ill try remember (could be Kentmere), after deving, selenium tone got some fab orange, redish pink, yellows and green tones from them, stunning stuff from BW film and paper you wouldnt believe
 
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I tried some very old Kentmere RC with it recently - came out with a really nice marble effect with a blue - green gradient running down the unexposed parts. Only been playing with lith recently since someone in the studio I use has just got a new batch & I'm already hooked!
 
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I tried some very old Kentmere RC with it recently - came out with a really nice marble effect with a blue - green gradient running down the unexposed parts. Only been playing with lith recently since someone in the studio I use has just got a new batch & I'm already hooked!
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combine it with selenium tone and youll get stunning mind blowing stuff :thumbs:
 
:lol: I would, but Tim Rudman has ruined that by giving everyone extensive knowledge in book form!
 
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