Murray & Minges

Forgive my ignorance but the picture appears to have a slight sepia tone.
Did you add this or is my monitor not in calibration or does Pyrocat produce that effect?
 
The Sepia tone is the colour of the negative stained by Pyrocat HD.
 
SRLP said:
The Sepia tone is the colour of the negative stained by Pyrocat HD.
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If the negative was scanned in colour then inverted the positive would be slightly blue toned :D Try inverting your image.

Mr Murray and Mr Menzies would have both been of Scottish descent. Menzies is actually pronounced "Minges", which probably accounts for the change.

Ian
 
Ian Grant said:
If the negative was scanned in colour and then inverted, the positive would be slightly blue toned. :D Try inverting your image.
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The negative was digitised with a Nikon D850. It is imported into Photoshop, where I keep the colour profile and invert it by flipping a curves layer, and indeed, it turns a pale blue. If you colour balance by using the "eyedropper" on a neutral colour, in this case, I utilised the facade of the building; it magically returns to the original colour. Here is a phone picture of the negative for colour reference. 20240125_142141.jpg
 
Ian Grant said:
Mr Murray and Mr Menzies would have both been of Scottish descent. Menzies is actually pronounced "Minges", which probably accounts for the change.
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Ian- That's an interesting fact about the names, and it makes perfect sense. This store is local to me and about 50 miles north of Charlotte, North Carolina. This area has a sizeable Scottish history. In fact, there is a Scottish festival and Highland games held nearby every April.
 
SRLP said:
The negative was digitised with a Nikon D850. It is imported into Photoshop, where I keep the colour profile and invert it by flipping a curves layer, and indeed, it turns a pale blue. If you colour balance by using the "eyedropper" on a neutral colour, in this case, I utilised the facade of the building; it magically returns to the original colour. Here is a phone picture of the negative for colour reference. View attachment 4495
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I am known to use Pyrocat HD on darkroom prints. I almost exclusively use Warm tone papers, but I occasionally use Ilford IT-8 toner, the bleach is similar to a Dichromate Intensifier, the re-developer a simple two part Pyrocatechin developer. As the only film developer I use is Pyrocat HD it made sense to try it.

The result is really nice olive brown tones reminiscent of some pre-WWII papers.

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The paper hers was Forte Polywarm tone, initially processed in Ilford ID-78, this toner intensifies images.

Ian
 
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