Solarisation
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Delta 400 @640ASA, Finol,
Fomabrom 123 solarised in copper bleach, Easy Lith 3+3+500 warm 1,5 minutes.
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In the knowhow section you will find partly new, partly revised instructions. Among others also 2nd pass lith.
Fomatone 132
Trial with a paper batch (077848-17) from December 2022, which proved to be completely unusable for a straight lith.
SE2 Warm 1+10 two and a half minutes, copper bleach until the lights solarise. Easy Lith 3+3+500ml a minute and a half at 35°C.
Exhibit: Luftwerk Solarise: A Sea of All Colors -- Inspired by the blue and red spectrums of sunlight that plants utilize to photosynthesize growth, Florescence is a sculptural intervention of red and blue petals, hung canopy-like in an optical pattern. As the light passes through these filters, colorful shadows are cast throughout the entirety of the Show House, creating an immersive experience that heightens the viewer’s awareness of the processes by which nature unfolds.
Blocks of wood with paint splashes at the harbourside in Seahouses, Northumberland
( iPiccy grunge + solarise )
A little feather floated into the office. Make something of it, I thought.
Enlarged onto PW14,
Easy Lith Special 1+20 and 2nd pass lith solarised.
Even with a strong (1+1) bath of copper bleach, solarisation can occur on Ilford MGIV. On the left the result after one minute of bleaching. Only after two more minutes do the solarised highlight areas also bleach.
Both prints were re-developed with Easy Lith 3+3+500ml at approx. 35°C in one minute and a half minute hot water bath.
Created for Kreative People Treat This 98.
Thanks to Lemon~art for use of her Teasel for Treat This image. A copy is also posted in the first comment box below.
All other photographs and textures are my own. The textures used are:
Bit of arty fun...
When restoring my dub, red was a colour considered, before finally deciding on blue.
Enjoy your weekend, folks!
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Tree in fog intentional camera movement.
I took this about a month ago on top of a hill in fog. It’s a circular movement ICM of a tree looming out of the murk at about 4pm.
I was all alone up there in a silent grey world of mystery and vague unease.
This rather radically (but simply) processed for my monochrome 100x project - I am so far behind. I rather like the effect though I may be in a crowd of one :)
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Thursday Monochrome :)
[Handheld in gloomy daylit fog. Circular movement ICM rotating the camera around the lens axis.
Developed in Photolab 3, retrieving detail out of the gloom and increase contrast.
Processed in Affinity Photo using just a levels adjustment and playing with the gamma (brightness).
The layer was duplicated and blend it back using Negate blend at 100% opacity. Hence the solarised like effect.
Into Silver Efex for the conversion adding lots of contrast and structure.
Heavy blue toning.
Light vignette.
Added grain and a bit of curves tweaking and we were done.].
This is a wobbly pic of a Ferris wheel at Frampton Fair. The fair is one of the largest country fairs in Britain. Frampton is an interesting village in the Severn river floodplain a few miles from where I live. It has one of the longest village greens in the country (though not used for the fair).
It was the first time I had been to the fair and on a sunny day it was awash with people all having a good time enjoying the special breed animal displays, horse competitions, dog contests, and a hundred-and-one craft and trade stalls (actually 400 and one would be a better estimate according to the web site). But most important for the children among us was the funfair!
Taking pictures of the Ferris wheel proved more of a challenge than I would have liked. It was difficult to get in the right place to see the faces of the people. (I had much more success with the dodgems but that is for another time ;) ).
The original capture of this ICM of one of the moving seats was almost monochrome, but I liked the lines and the forms and the sense of abstract geometric movement.
While processing it I decided to have a bit of fun - it was a funfair after all. So I partly solarised it (using a Curves adjustment layer and creating inflexions in the luminosity curve in LAB mode - you could also do it in the RGB master layer curve). All the processing was done in Affinity Photo on the iPaddle.
Thanks for looking. I hope you enjoy the abstract fun image. Happy Donnerstags Monocrom and 100x :)
Exhibit: Luftwerk Solarise: A Sea of All Colors -- Framing the legendary “spring song waterfall,” which crowns the lagoon of the Fern Room, Portal draws the viewer’s gaze to fall directly upon the heart of the conservatory. Floating above the surface of the reflection pool, Portal performs as a frame for—and reflection of—the natural surroundings in which it is situated. With its mutli-faceted use of mirrors, the installation mimics the slick of the reflection pool, while fragmenting and abstracting the figures of flora blooming in the space.
A wedding reception at the Portal in Garfield Park Conservatory, Chicago
"Floating above the surface of the reflection pool, Portal performs as a frame for--and reflection of--the natural surroundings in which it is situated."
solarise: a sea of all colors, created by Luftwerk – Chicago artists Petra Bachmaier and Sean Gallero, is on exhibit in Garfield Park Conservatory. Portal is one of them..
Plastic bottle tops solarised.
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Chrysanthemum flowers.
This processing was more complicated though still using blend ranges and an underlying white fill layer.
I then used a Curves layer in LAB mode to change the colours and by dipping and diving the luminosity L channel created the solarised effect. You can see the underlying layer now looks blue-grey.
Finally a bit of brightness adjustment and a soft dark vignette.
This is my choice for Sliders Sunday :) It was an interesting thing to try, though perhaps not the most enthralling endpoint.
I'll link the in-camera original in the first comment so you can see how far we came.
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Sliders Sunday
Rose.
I love pictures of flowers where there is a bit of mystery going on, where in a mass of petals you catch a glimpse of some intimate part of the flower nestled within…
Well that was the idea behind this one. The image of itself didn’t turn out too well mainly because of the flower shape. I also felt that the image composition was a bit weak.
In spite of its weaknesses I did like the tones of this rose’s colours and so it ended up on the list of images to play with for Sliders Sunday. I’ll link the in-camera original in the first comment so you can see how far we came :)
By the way, apologies to my Flickr friends. I’ve not been around too much to comment, fave and generally chat as much as I would like recently because of a busy spell. It’s going to be a bit hectic over the coming months as well, but I appreciate you all!
Thank you for taking time to look. I hope you enjoy the fiery landscape! HSS :)
[This was a long meander of playing about with colour over several weeks.
Handheld in sunlight; developed in Lightroom to brighten colours and contrast.
Colour play in Topaz Studio with sharpening and histrionics there.
The bulk of the effect was achieved using a tweaked solarised preset in the Nik 2018 Colour Efex plugin.
Square crop to strengthen the composition; slight dark vignette.]
Palm leaf.
Having pretty well exhausted whatever potential I had for the sublime this week I thought it time to give the ridiculous an outing.
This is for Sliders Sunday. I didn't have a lot of time so it's more a proof of concept rather than the finished article.
Palm leaves are interesting because of their radiating lines. This started out as a rather poor attempt at capturing an image of one in my garden. That failed so it was consigned to the Sliders Sunday Rescue and Recycling Project for Failed Photographs.
The basic idea I wanted to try out was to take the patterned image, copy it and flip it horizontally and vertically and then blend the two layers with blend modes and reduced opacity. It worked quite well to give the criss-cross effect.
For this one I hue-shifted one layer to get different colours and then used Difference blend at 80%. That created most of the effect, and I could have left it there.
Playing a bit more, I then took the result and solarised it using Nik Color Efex (a fun effect). Then the result was partially blended back into the previous two layers using the advanced blend mode (which only blended a certain range of tonality) and a bit more hue-shifting.
Really I was just messing around and going for some pretty colours...
All good fun, and and a bit of trying not to take photography too seriously... (Same applies to the title :) )
I'll link the blurry original in the first comment as usual so you can see how far we came.
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image :) Happy Sliders Sunday!
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Beech leaves.
I was nearly lost in my addiction today.
I have dozens of images in the archive trying to capture the emotional fire that consumes the local beech woods for a few weeks each autumn. Most of them struggle to evoke the feelings that overwhelm my senses when I walk in these woods. It’s difficult to describe.
But I thought I would play with one of the captures from this year and see what I could do with it.
There are three variations in the set this week, and I’ll suspect you’ll only warm to one of them ;) But which one is the question…?
Straight colour. Developed in Capture One for colour and clarity; processed in Affinity with USM sharpening and Clarity and a vignette. This is the basis of the other two (without the vignette).
Toned monochrome in Silver Efex.
There were lots of interesting possibilities in monochrome, far more than I expected but many were only subtly different from each other. It all comes down to what you want to say… which always confuses me because I like talking lots!
I like the muted tones and the colour in this one. This is for my 100x Way Behind project :)
Zappady Zoo version using Color Efex for Sliders Sunday, all solarise and glows and vignettes and… well… toys stuff.
This one talks about colour. And little else. Well, I guess there are the shapes and lines and forms and everything but you know what I mean.
I like this one because of the emotional impact of the colour. It’s very different from the real thing but the raw intensity is there, and that’s probably why I like it for this image.
I nearly didn’t come up for air from the Nik filters though - just too much fun in there…
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the images. Happy Sliders Sunday and 100x :)
Manhole cover.
So I was striding down this local leafy lane on my Permitted Exercise, proving to myself quite successfully that zoomed multiple exposures in burst mode of local leafy lanes don’t work...
And my beady eye espied this curious piece of graphic design in the road. It was full of arrows - surely the most iconic of modern symbols: left, right, up, down, play, exit, this way, result, implication, inference, even - you’re lost really aren’t you?
To be fair I’d spotted this manhole cover many times before but mainly because of its curious behaviour after heavy rains. Then water emerges up and out of the cover and runs down the hill, a feature I think of a land drain blockage further down the hill. It’s been like that for years - presumably nobody has noticed or cared enough to do anything about it. Not that it really matters as the water disappears down the next cover.
High contrast graphic patterns like this are always good to play with I think, so this is for Sliders Sunday.
The effect is created entirely in Nik Color Efex by abusing the sliders in some of the more dramatic effects. The stack I ended up with is:
- Bi-color user Defined, orange bottom right to purple top left. I used this first to create a colour gradient across the image to add interest and variety to the pattern repeat.
- Solarisation. This one caused most of the colour drama. I have to admit that I am getting a little tired of the effects of this filter [Loud cheers are heard offstage...], but it does have a bit of an addictive colour-zap rush about it.
- Monday Morning - produces a dark moody glow, only applied to parts of the image to add to the tonal texture and variation.
- Low Key.
- Pro Contrast.
- Reflector efex.
These last four just toyed with the overall result.
So there we have it.
And, yes. You imagined it not. Your hapless correspondent has indeed sunk to the depths of talking about the local drains. He can descend no further… surely... please...
I’ll post a link to the in-camera original in the first comment so you can... er, well... add to your personal collection of manhole cover pics :)
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Sliders Sunday! :)
Beech leaves.
I was nearly lost in my addiction today.
I have dozens of images in the archive trying to capture the emotional fire that consumes the local beech woods for a few weeks each autumn. Most of them struggle to evoke the feelings that overwhelm my senses when I walk in these woods. It’s difficult to describe.
But I thought I would play with one of the captures from this year and see what I could do with it.
There are three variations in the set this week, and I’ll suspect you’ll only warm to one of them ;) But which one is the question…?
Straight colour. Developed in Capture One for colour and clarity; processed in Affinity with USM sharpening and Clarity and a vignette. This is the basis of the other two (without the vignette).
Toned monochrome in Silver Efex.
There were lots of interesting possibilities in monochrome, far more than I expected but many were only subtly different from each other. It all comes down to what you want to say… which always confuses me because I like talking lots!
I like the muted tones and the colour in this one. This is for my 100x Way Behind project :)
Zappady Zoo version using Color Efex for Sliders Sunday, all solarise and glows and vignettes and… well… toys stuff.
This one talks about colour. And little else. Well, I guess there are the shapes and lines and forms and everything but you know what I mean.
I like this one because of the emotional impact of the colour. It’s very different from the real thing but the raw intensity is there, and that’s probably why I like it for this image.
I nearly didn’t come up for air from the Nik filters though - just too much fun in there…
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the images. Happy Sliders Sunday and 100x :)
Taken on a clear sunny day, with bright blue sky and black exhaust. Solarising filter applied during processing, partially reversing the tones. Dark areas appear light or light areas appear dark.
I discovered last year that trees in winter are fascinating. They are so varied - each species is different. Their continually bifurcating branches form delicate and complex traceries in the sky.
Of course, I only said that so that I could use that particular bi-word. It just has a lovely lilt to it...
Besides, I was chatting to a medical professional last week and she quite cheerfully told me that my aorta had bifurcated into two iliac arteries. She assured me this was perfectly normal. But the word was on my mind.
I’ve always felt too that it was a good word to have in your arsenal should you ever have to hurl insults at anyone. For example: ‘please go away and …’ {well, yes: this is a family show so ...}. Fortunately, I’ve never had a need to use it in earnest! :)
There are just two contributions to this set. The first is the mirrored version created from a silhouette of a local tree taken on a walk this spring, using the Android app MirrorLab running on a Chromebook (a great fun app). The second is based on the first, solarised and tweaked in Nik Color Efex for Sliders Sunday.
This sort of tinkering always appeals to my brain’s addiction to symmetry and pattern. If you like it then I am afraid you probably share the same quirky brain - you have my sympathy :)
I’ll post a link to the in-camera original in the first comment so that you can see the starting point.
Thank you for taking the time to look. I hope you enjoy the images. Happy Sliders Sunday :)
Solarisation filter applied.
Built on land purchased in 1886 following the closure of the Port Arthur Penal Settlement by an English potter from Staffordshire, James Price. Following the death of Price, the kiln was used by local fisherman as a storeage until it in part collapsed. In 1982, it was fully restored but has never been put to use due to the fragility of the historic bricks.