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

[Jack Fulton]

. . . . and, Francesco, did, at any time during this long exposure, di you look at it?
Secondly, how did you finalize the process?
Thanks
Jack




On May 3, 2013, at 4:20 PM, Francesco Fragomeni <fdfragomeni at gmail.com> wrote:

> Just a standard pinhole poked with the tip of a pin into a piece of
> aluminum weather proofing tape. No attempt was made to make the hole any
> smaller then it would be for a normal pinhole as the diameter of the hole
> and subsequent exposure measurements don't matter with solargraph
> exposures. The phenomenon occurs because of drastic overexposure. You just
> set the thing up and wait however long you want to wait. The beauty of this
> is that there is essentially no such thing as a wrong exposure.
> 
> -Francesco
> 
> 
> On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Jack Fulton <jefulton1 at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
>> 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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