What is Sepia Tone?
According to Wikipedia, sepia tone “refers to the coloring of a black and white photographic print… that has been toned with a sepia toner to simulate the faded brownish color of some early photographs.” The Wikipedia article goes on to say: Beginning in the 1880s, sepia was produced by adding a pigment to the positive print of a photograph. The pigment is made from the Sepia officinalis cuttlefish, found in the English channel. The chemical process converts any remaining metallic silver to a sulphide, which is much more resistant to breakdown over time. This is why many old photographs are sepia toned—these are the ones that have survived until today. I think that there are several important connotations of sepia tone, as described above, for us to apply to the “Once Upon A Time” chapter: old, photograph, and preserve. ~ Old. I think that the previous parts of Jennifer’s dream (the previous chapters of the Rule of Rose game) were experienced by Jennifer as if in “real time”. But Jenni
Caleb Agnew, like many professional photographers of his era, worked exclusively in sepia tone, a technique which gained popularity with the rise of paper-based photo printing and gradually disappeared over the first decades of the 20th century. According to “Wikipedia” (the free Internet encyclopedia)…. Sepia tone is a type of monochrome photographic image in which the picture appears in shades of brown as opposed to greyscale as in a black-and-white image. It was originally produced by adding a pigment made from the Sepia cuttlefish to the positive print of a photograph taken with any number of negative processes. The chemical process involved converts any remaining metallic silver to a sulphide which is much more resistant to breakdown over time. This is why many “old time” photographs are sepia toned those are the ones that have survived until today. Presumably photographers stopped using sepia tone process as the process for “fixing” greyscale photographic emulsions improved. Us
Historically our choice of photographic paper is one that maintains the appearance of age. a matte, fiber paper that looks and feels like the old photos. This type of paper is now difficult to come by but contact us for more current information on availability. Regular (RC) paper is a more contemporary looking resin coated paper, which has a semi gloss finish and more contrast in the tones. All prints can be sepia toned. Before we can make a print, though, we need to make a negative. However our standard prints are now created through a digital process. WE ARE STILL ABLE TO MAKE PRINTS FROM YOUR OLD BLACK AND WHITE NEGATIVES! Either true photographic prints or by scanning them. You can mail them to us, just package them up carefully. See mailing photos.
