Early Work In Photography
A Text-book For Beginners

Io Early Work in Photography. Next make up the Soda Stock Solution. Bicarbonate of soda ... ... i ounce Table salt ... ... ... I , Water, to make ... ... 15 ounces, This may be kept in an ordinary corked bottle. To use a toning bath proceed as follows:— The prints must appear darker than we wish to have them when finished (for reasons we have already given), and it is advisable to have a decided tinge of color in the parts that are to be white in the finished photogram. The exact deptli can only be known after a few trials and possibly some disappointment. Instead of putting these prints into a fixing batli we must now immerse them in clean cold water and turn them over therein for five minutes; this had better be done four or five times, then cover the tray, containing the prints, with a piece of cardboard to exclude light, and make up the following toning batli in a clean deep porcelain tray, size about 7 by 5 inches, or, better still, 9 by 7 inches. Toning hath for use, Water, cold (about 65e F.) ... 20 ounces. Stock gold solution ... ... 2 „ Stock soda solution ... ... 2 „ This may be used at once, but will not keep. Put the tray ot prints on a table at your left hand, the toning bath in front, and a basin or tray of clean water at your right, as shown in the dia- gram. Take a print from the tray and immerse it face downwards in the toning bath, then turn it face upwards and re- move any air bells that may have ormed upon it and turn it down again. Keep it moving, first face up and tlien face down, being particular to keep it under the solution, except at such times as you may desire to lift it out for closer inspection. In about a minute, put another print into the batli and treat it in a similar manner, but do not forget to turn print No. 1, and