From: Christopher Lovenguth (chrisml@pacbell.net)
Date: 09/28/02-09:11:19 AM Z
I do like the qualities of the solarized area, but at the same time if you
look at the area on the faces that have detail (which are about zone 3-4 on
my film) there is nice detail that is missing from the solarized area. It
seems just about everything over zone 6-7 is solarizing. I could compensate
in my composition and preconceive what areas will solarize, but still there
is the issue that theses areas become almost a solid tone. The flattening is
more dramatic on the digital representations then the originals but I think
it still "2Ds" the area of the image that is solarized and I don't know if I
can live it.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Bailey [mailto:quryhous@midcoast.com]
Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2002 6:43 AM
To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
Subject: solarized daguerreotypes.
Christopher,
> my highlights (white with detail) in my
> daguerreotypes I'm printing from chromes are blowing out and
> solarizing.
> Besides these two options are there any I'm forgetting?
I've only done mercury development with the few dags I've made - and with
mercury developed plates you have contrast control by varying the fuming
ratios between the iodine and bromine. I'm not sure what controls you have
along this line with Becq. plates....
That being said - are you perhaps in danger of being an "expert about what
you want" regarding the solarized blue?? I find the solarized areas quite
compelling in those images - and it is very much part of the process.
Another possible way to look at it: why not exploit it and make a virtue out
of a necessity??
FWIW - Jon
www.jonathan-bailey.com
Tenants Harbor, Maine
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