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skellum
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Registered: December 2011 Location: Isle of Lewis Posts: 1,330
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Sat, 12, January, 2013 3:43pm
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Wow. This is a great image, very mysterious and other-worldly.
However . . . duh? This is a scan from a negative which was neither developed nor fixed?? It was 'saved' and scanned???
Sorry, I must have drunk too much stupid juice last night. What exactly was the sequence here Paul as I'm a bit lost.
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CornishPaul
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Registered: February 2011 Location: Hayle, West Cornwall Posts: 98
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Sat, 12, January, 2013 4:01pm
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Sorry if I didn't explain the process very well. Because solargraphs are made with extremely long exposures, anything from a few weeks to several months, the paper negative is greatly over-exposed and comes out of the camera with a visible image, not a latent one. Developing in chemicals, in the conventional way would, therefore, destroy the image. The only way to keep the image is to scan the negative and make a digital print.
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skellum
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Registered: December 2011 Location: Isle of Lewis Posts: 1,330
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Sat, 12, January, 2013 7:18pm
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A-Ha! Now I'm with you. So the original image is captured on a piece of colour photographic paper, but comes out as a positive becuase of the massive exposure? I've come across that concept in Solarisation, where huge overexposure reverses the tones. Very interesting!
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AlanJones
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Registered: March 2011 Location: Cambridge Posts: 234
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Thu, 24, January, 2013 6:08am
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I have not come across this before. Presumably the white lines in the sky are the track of the sun and the broken bits are when there was cloud cover?
Interesting!
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Terry S
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Registered: December 2011 Location: Southend on Sea, Essex, England, UK Posts: 3,796
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Tue, 18, November, 2014 11:28am
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I've been reading up on really alternative processes such as this lately and it's interesting to note that the neg / print, although colour, is made on BLACK AND WHITE darkroom paper and the colours are introduced by the extremelyyyyyyyyyyy longggggggggggggggg exposure!
Terry S
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CornishPaul
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Registered: February 2011 Location: Hayle, West Cornwall Posts: 98
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Tue, 6, January, 2015 9:14am
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Another way of achieving colour with black and white paper is by making "lumen" prints. Contact printing in hot, bright sunshine, no developing, just fixing and washing.
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