From: Christopher Lovenguth (chrisml@pacbell.net)
Date: 03/27/02-10:07:07 AM Z
Wow I might want to try this Clay! Sometimes I wish we had a web-based group
so that we could show examples.... Anyway, my idea of "Solarization" is the
effect that Man Ray achieved.
This site shows what I think of when I hear the word solarization:
http://photography.about.com/library/weekly/aa091399.htm
Now is this achievable by just overexposing palladium? I wouldn't think it
is unless you dodge out parts of you print. Or is it achievable if you use a
less dense negative? The less dense part of the negative overexposes before
the denser parts reach full exposure.
Before I started learning alt processes, I was really into doing just about
anything but a "normal" print with silver paper. So I was very much in to
making solarized prints. The beauty was you could never make the same print
twice, so they were one of a kind. I would love to incorporate this in to my
non-silver work; I just didn't think it possible based on the technique I
used to make silver gelatin solarized prints.
<Christopher;
<The effect, whatever term you want to apply to it, is
<readily
<observable by overexposing a test wedge in pure
<palladium and plotting the resulting print densities. What
<happens is that at some point the print density actually
<begins to *decrease* with increased UV exposure, so the
<normal H&D curve begins to bend back down and give
<lighter and lighter print densities. My understanding is
<that
<this really is solarization. I dunno, it may just be
<semantics,
<but the effect is real and repeatable.
clay
>
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