What is this photography technique called?
January 11th, 2012 by admin
At my darkroom photography class, my teacher did this technique with us but I don’t know what it’s called, it definitely had a name. We made photograms and began to develop them but after being in the developer for 20 seconds, we exposed them again under our enlargers. It made the photograms have a silvery effect. Do you know what it’s called?
Actually "solarization" is something else. That is when film is grossly over exposed and the negative starts to turn to a positive.
What you are talking about is called the Sabattier effect.
http://pworkshop.tripod.com/sabattier.htm
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January 12th, 2012 at 4:30 am
Solarization. It’s exactly the same thing as Sabattier effect
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solarisation
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January 12th, 2012 at 4:38 am
Solarisation made famous by Man Ray
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January 12th, 2012 at 4:53 am
Actually "solarization" is something else. That is when film is grossly over exposed and the negative starts to turn to a positive.
What you are talking about is called the Sabattier effect.
http://pworkshop.tripod.com/sabattier.htm
References :
proFotog
January 12th, 2012 at 5:21 am
I don’t have a new answer – just want to support the observation that this is NOT solarization, but the Sabatier effect, sometimes referred to as "pseudo- solarization" which is odd given that it was discovered and described many years before "true" solarization.
Both are caused by overexposure, although at different points in the process: solarized prints are produced by grossly overexposing film before development, , while you have to weakly over (or, re) expose the emulsion during development to achieve the Sabatier effect,
The reference to Mann Ray is due to the fact that he and his assistant Lee Miller "rediscovered" the Sabatier effect in about 1929, but generally referring to it, incorrectly, as solarization, thus popularising both the technique and its incorrect designation.
You can simulate these effects (and the other forms of solarization) in PaintShopPro and Photoshop, but few modern emulsions actually respond to these techniques
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http://www.cchem.berkeley.edu/wljeme/Chapt1.html