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

[Jack Fulton]

Indeed, the whole thing is a curious phenomenon and is linked to the Lumen prints I'd guess.
The colors are what surprised me. So, if the exposure was for 7 months, the entrance hole
must've been extremely small. Do you know how you made it or what the size was?
Jack




On May 3, 2013, at 2:34 PM, Francesco Fragomeni <fdfragomeni at gmail.com> wrote:

> It was made with photo-paper. I'm actually unsure what paper it was exactly
> as I pulled it out of a mixed box of old loose paper scrap that I'd
> collected so it could be anything. I wasn't convinced that it would
> actually work so I didn't spend much time thinking about it. That's a shame
> now as I'd like to know exactly what paper it was too. I can tell you that
> it was RC but that's about it.
> 
> -Francesco
> 
> 
> On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Ravene at gmail.com <ravene at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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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