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Sepia Toning Black and White Photos

This new video from Professor Agar demonstrates some of the techniques he discussed in "Fun Things to do with Photography" • Fun Things To Do with ... . Watch as he imparts his wit and demonstrates how to sepia tone black and white traditional photos using two different types of toners, Legacy Pro and Berg. At the end of the video, he shows you how to selectively tone (or bleach out) part of your photo. The majority of this video is black and white, but the important parts are in color. :) Please leave any questions you have or share your comments and successes below. We hope you enjoy this presentation!!

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  • @GayleNichollsAli
    @GayleNichollsAli Жыл бұрын

    I am a high school photo teacher and students love him!

  • @y34r
    @y34r4 жыл бұрын

    The lost art, I really wish I lived over community college he taught. Pure wisdom and its fun to watch. I can rewatch this over and over. Thx

  • @Trangent

    @Trangent

    4 жыл бұрын

    You can watch this as much as you want!! Thank you for your kind words! ❤️

  • @dick91p
    @dick91p8 жыл бұрын

    Great video as usual! He's so good at conveying knowledge.

  • @Trangent

    @Trangent

    8 жыл бұрын

    +dick91p Thanks!!! Glad you enjoyed the video!

  • @RobRobBob
    @RobRobBob5 жыл бұрын

    This is fantastic, thanks for making this professor Agar! Very informative and I like your style.

  • @Trangent

    @Trangent

    5 жыл бұрын

    Thank you Rob!!! Best of luck to you in all your photography and everything else!!

  • @totalrecone
    @totalrecone7 жыл бұрын

    Many thanks for an awesome and instructional video! This has opened up a whole new avenue of darkroom antics for me to explore.

  • @Trangent

    @Trangent

    7 жыл бұрын

    Awesome!! Thanks Ian! Glad you liked the video! Hope you produce amazing results!!

  • @rickycheung1258
    @rickycheung12589 жыл бұрын

    Very informative!Thanks Trangent for taking your time to shoot these videos and share them with us

  • @Trangent

    @Trangent

    9 жыл бұрын

    You're welcome @Rick Zhang! Thanks for watching!!!

  • @altoidtinsurvival925
    @altoidtinsurvival9255 жыл бұрын

    Great video. Thank you for sharing that well laid out and thought out information. This was just what I was looking for.

  • @Trangent

    @Trangent

    4 жыл бұрын

    Thank you!! Glad our video helped you. Good luck toning your beautiful photos!

  • @Serenitees
    @Serenitees6 жыл бұрын

    did you really say 'cool city" and "groovy"? I love you, man!

  • @Trangent

    @Trangent

    6 жыл бұрын

    Lol :)) He does say those things... I guess you better keep watching our videos! ☮️

  • @Serenitees

    @Serenitees

    6 жыл бұрын

    I wish he was my instructor. He is wonderful!

  • @Trangent

    @Trangent

    6 жыл бұрын

    He is your virtual instructor! Thanks for watching! Glad you enjoy our videos :))

  • @Jeztastic
    @Jeztastic9 жыл бұрын

    Love these videos!

  • @Trangent

    @Trangent

    9 жыл бұрын

    Thanks!!!!

  • @harrystevens3885
    @harrystevens38857 жыл бұрын

    Another great informative video,Excellent.:)

  • @Trangent

    @Trangent

    7 жыл бұрын

    Thank you Harry!!! :))

  • @markharris5771
    @markharris57717 жыл бұрын

    If Professor Agar is as good on his guitar as he is at teaching I wouldn't mind hearing him play!

  • @Trangent

    @Trangent

    7 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Mark!! I saw him once jammin' with some friends... They were very good!! Thanks for watching!! :))

  • @markharris5771

    @markharris5771

    7 жыл бұрын

    Only guitar players have that one fingernail.

  • @Trangent

    @Trangent

    7 жыл бұрын

    lol :))

  • @thebuggy736
    @thebuggy7362 жыл бұрын

    Very nice. Thank you.

  • @zguy95135
    @zguy951357 жыл бұрын

    Fascinating, thank you. I haven't printed since high school and I'm hoping to put together a darkroom this winter!

  • @Trangent

    @Trangent

    7 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Joseph!! Awesome! Hope all goes well with your darkroom! That's a great way to pass the cold months :) Good luck to you!!

  • @SuperBruzzler
    @SuperBruzzler9 жыл бұрын

    Wonderfull video love this so much ....it brings me straight forward...many thx

  • @Trangent

    @Trangent

    9 жыл бұрын

    SuperBruzzler Awesome!!! Thank you!

  • @seasidefoto
    @seasidefoto8 жыл бұрын

    Thank you very much.

  • @Trangent

    @Trangent

    8 жыл бұрын

    You're so welcome Robin KIM!! Thanks for viewing!

  • @slimnics
    @slimnics7 жыл бұрын

    awesome. thank you

  • @Trangent

    @Trangent

    7 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Slimnics!!! :)

  • @lanepelissier91
    @lanepelissier919 жыл бұрын

    Nice!

  • @Trangent

    @Trangent

    9 жыл бұрын

    :)) Thank you Lane!

  • @RetiOrchid58
    @RetiOrchid587 жыл бұрын

    Very cool..Professor Agar should write a similarly presented book on all this..I'm sure it would be great and I for one would definitely buy it above any others on the darkroom. Plus, it would help the much-needed preservation of film photography knowledge! :)

  • @Trangent

    @Trangent

    7 жыл бұрын

    +Philip Paynter Thank you Phillip--that's a great idea!!! I will mention this to Prof. Agar :))

  • @RetiOrchid58

    @RetiOrchid58

    7 жыл бұрын

    +Trangent Thank you!

  • @krishnansrinivasan830
    @krishnansrinivasan8308 жыл бұрын

    Nice and Thank you :)

  • @Trangent

    @Trangent

    8 жыл бұрын

    +krishnan srinivasan Thanks for watching Krishnan!!

  • @samokunzo
    @samokunzo9 жыл бұрын

    Perfect video, thank you!

  • @Trangent

    @Trangent

    9 жыл бұрын

    Thank you @Samuel K!! Glad you liked it! :))

  • @MakreenAdel
    @MakreenAdel Жыл бұрын

    you warmed up the bleach to what temperature please ?

  • @mlopez7640
    @mlopez76404 жыл бұрын

    Hello, I recently been learning how to do Collodion photography. Would this process work with this type of photography. I usually shoot my images on either aluminum or on glass.

  • @TheUV58
    @TheUV585 жыл бұрын

    круто!

  • @Trangent

    @Trangent

    5 жыл бұрын

    :)) Thanks for watching!

  • @baisaophotos4753
    @baisaophotos47539 жыл бұрын

    I saw this the day it came out but Firefox wouldn't let me comment until now. Thanks for the ping, tho. So, is the rubber cement allowed to dry first or is it used wet?

  • @Trangent

    @Trangent

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Baisao Photos Thanks for watching! Sorry about your Firefox issues!! I've had some myself... After painting on the rubber cement, it dries quickly. Then you use the bleach and toner (when rubber cement has dried). It's so nice to work with--after you're done altering the photo, it peels easily! Good luck to you!!

  • @JPKVan17
    @JPKVan177 жыл бұрын

    Cool. Is there a way to employ different tones/colors on the same print?

  • @Trangent

    @Trangent

    7 жыл бұрын

    Yes-you can use Liquid Friskit or rubber cement to mask areas of the print that you do not want to tone. You can buy different colored toners at B&H online. Professor Agar likes the Edwal brand. Hope this helps!! Thanks for watching!!

  • @JPKVan17

    @JPKVan17

    7 жыл бұрын

    Sorry but can you also "stack" tones? Watching the video I was, besides being intrigued, reminded of watching people "paint" Easter eggs with dyes and wax. Starting with masking the white, dip in yellow mask the yellow, dip in blue watch the green, mask the green, dip back in blue. etc ending in black.

  • @Trangent

    @Trangent

    7 жыл бұрын

    Professor Agar is kind of a straight sort of a photo guy and says, "...so I have not personally experimented with your ideas. However-the technique reminds me of the good old days in the 60s and 70s when experimentation was the norm. People did exactly as you suggested using Edwals and Berg toners. They also drew and painted on the image. A student of mine recently took her black and white print, a portrait, and started painting all over it leaving the face untouched like a Greek Orthodox Icon. The effect was dramatic! We scanned the image and made a digital print but the resulting image lost its appeal. The pigments that had been applied to the original presented their own unique quality that was lost in digital reproduction. My advice is to have fun and experiment!" Hope his advice gives you lots of ideas and creative freedom John!! Good luck to you!!

  • @JPKVan17

    @JPKVan17

    7 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for your time and and sharing your experience.

  • @Trangent

    @Trangent

    7 жыл бұрын

    +John Vandenberg You're welcome! Have a great Christmas and New Year!

  • @Yun-xe2vt
    @Yun-xe2vt5 жыл бұрын

    Is this process same as Lith developer? Thanks!

  • @Trangent

    @Trangent

    5 жыл бұрын

    The Professor says, "No. They are different. In sepia toner we make a good print which we can dry and tone later. The bleach appears to erase the image which turns almost white. If you stick the print back into the developer it will redevelop and appear normal. But if you place the bleached print into sepia toner the image redevelops with the characteristic warm tone. Different papers react differently. Kodak no longer makes sepia toners but others are available like the Legacy brand sold by Freestyle Photographic in California. A good explanation of Lith printing is: filmphotographyproject.com/content/howto/2012/01/what-lith-print/" Thanks for watching Yun :) Good luck to you!!

  • @Sasha0K
    @Sasha0K5 жыл бұрын

    looks like the tree print lost contrast after toning ?

  • @Trangent

    @Trangent

    3 жыл бұрын

    The Professor says, "Usually toning gets a feeling of slightly more contrast as the whites get a bit brighter. Only a bit though." These were actually two different prints, so the one may have been more contrasty to begin with.

  • @tulsaclubguy
    @tulsaclubguy9 жыл бұрын

    I love the video's. I understand the connection with black and white, but a personal opinion, choose either color for the video or complete black and white. It is distracting.

  • @Trangent

    @Trangent

    8 жыл бұрын

    Executive decision... Thanks for watching, +Robert Coughlin!

  • @Raevenswood

    @Raevenswood

    6 жыл бұрын

    I think it was kind of an artistic decision to go between color and black and white since the subject of the video is adding color (tone) to B&W prints.

  • @Trangent

    @Trangent

    6 жыл бұрын

    Thank you Raevenswood!! We want to keep the videos black and white mostly due to the (sometimes) distracting background and the subject-B&W photography. However, it would be hard to show what sepia toning looks like, especially to someone who’s never seen it, without part of the demo being in color... I’ve since learned different ways I could have done this. Thank you for your support and for watching our videos!!

  • @pootnikalexander
    @pootnikalexander Жыл бұрын

    That photo looks like you...half color half black and white