How Different Papers React to Print Toning

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So certain papers take longer than others to tone essentially, and that's kind of the beauty of all this, and also a little bit of the frustration and the patience that you need. Because now I know that the paper that I'm trying to tone these blacks out of right now is a Kodak paper. And Kodak has, sometimes can be kind of stubborn. I call them stubborn papers because they just don't want to go. The other thing that's really important of, that if you were, when you were printing if you used a fixer that had hardener in it, that makes your toning much, much, much, more, much more difficult to work with, so most of the time I never use any hardener in my fixes. And that's one thing that I'm thinking of, as I'm trying to bleach out this print, it's been sitting in the bleach for about five minutes now which isn't common, but it's not uncommon, so I know that it's going to take me a little bit of a while, where as if I'd used maybe an ilford paper or certain afga papers, when I bleach them, they go very quickly. And so, it's just one of those things where being in a dark room you can make things look just the way you want them to, but it takes a certain knowledge to know how it's all going to work out.

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