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

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I''m curious... Was that photo paper or film? Also what kind?

It seems similar to the changes that happen with lumen prints? 





On May 3, 2013, at 8:06 AM, Francesco Fragomeni <fdfragomeni at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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