[Alt-photo] Re: 7 Month 25 Day Solargraph Exposure

[Francesco Fragomeni]

Hi George,

The actual color negative was quite faint but after scanning and then
inverting and applying basic auto contrast and auto color in Photoshop,
that's what was produced. I was quite surprised with the level of color
accuracy.

-Francesco


On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 3:27 AM, George L Smyth <glsmyth at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Francesco -
>
> Very cool, I don't know that I have seen a solargraph with those
> particular colors before.
>
> Cheers -
>
> george
>
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> --- On Sun, 4/28/13, Francesco Fragomeni <fdfragomeni at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > From: Francesco Fragomeni <fdfragomeni at gmail.com>
> > Subject: [Alt-photo] 7 Month 25 Day Solargraph Exposure
> > To: "The alternative photographic processes mailing list" <
> alt-photo-process-list at lists.altphotolist.org>
> > Date: Sunday, April 28, 2013, 1:33 PM
> > Thought some here might find this
> > interesting. I'd read some things about
> > solargraphy a while back and late last year I decided to
> > give it a try. It
> > was successful so now I plan to use it for a project that I
> > have in mind.
> > Exciting stuff.
> >
> > Here is a link to my newly finished solargraph. For those
> > who don't know,
> > this is a type of pinhole photograph created via an
> > ultra-long exposure. In
> > this case, the exposure lasted 7 months and 25 days from
> > September 2, 2012
> > to April 27, 2013. The camera survived and recorded through
> > Hurricane
> > Sandy, which despite causing tens of billions of dollars in
> > damage across
> > New York state, lasted for such a short duration of the
> > exposure that
> > virtually no sign of the storm can be seen. What's
> > remarkable is that a
> > printed-out color negative is produced by B&W silver-gel
> > paper. As I
> > understand it, the bromide in the paper under a change due
> > to the extreme
> > over-exposure which produces a color image.
> >
> > http://www.francescofragomeni.com/solargraphy/
> >
> > Francesco Fragomeni
> > www.francescofragomeni.com
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