DARKROOM PHOTOGRAPHY PROCESS - SOLARIZATION

Solarizing Silver Gelatin Prints is a fun and creative thing to do in the Darkroom experimenting with light and times and different strength developers to achieve your preferred result. Certain photographs can look quite cool when solarized, and others can look not so cool. It's all about playing and trying new things. This video shows my way of solarizing a silver print.

[RCAvhstape]

I've been searching for a simple explanation of solarization for a long time, and this is finally it. Thanks.

[billsbasementworkshop]

Hi,

Thanks for the memory. This is a technique which I was tought at colledge many years ago.
I never had any cause to use it, but it was a good lesson. Invented by Lee Miller or Manray
which ever you prefer.

Nice to see this video, Makes me feel young again.

Regards and happy shooting,

Bill.

[markharris]

I've done this many times, unfortunately never intentionally! Great video, I really liked the last print.

[TheKillingTreeTT]

Currently writting a thesis about the use of phootgraphy in contemporary art and I wanted to see what Man Ray was doing with his solarisations. Thank you for the quick and easy to follow explanation. Subscribed!

[bobshowrocks]

Thanks for the video! It's great to see these techniques done, and the end result.

[munnyl]

Amazing, thank you for sharing this with us!

[rick-fstop-lewis]

Solarize using masks and double exposures all in same print. Did that for shits and giggles once. Interesting results. Wish I would have scanned it before it got damaged.

[AnthonyDeLorenzo]

Really enjoy your channel, its one of the best darkroom channels on YouTube. Thanks for making these videos!

[photomaster]

Interesting video, I can see something like this done to a larger image like a large wall print. I enjoy your work, Sir...

[mamparame]

You have an awesome "channel", here on YouTube. Short, sharp and too the point, but absolutely enjoyable and informative.
Re "solarisation", what is the rationale for first stopping the development, as opposed to simply flashing ambient light while the paper is still in the developer?

[bjarnejonasson]

Using a second enlarger (any junk with a timer) is a much better way of doing this with full control

[grussem]

Great video, I've been meaning to try it out and may do so this week. Why can't you leave the photo in the developer while solarizing?

[ScottLaceyMN]

I love your videos! Been watching them for the past year. I've been thinking about using the scratch and print blank negatives technique you demonstrated on one of your videos. And creating black borders like you demonstrated in another. I've been wanting to shoot videos showing how I work in my darkroom for friends and possible customers. I have a question; how do you shoot video in the dim amber light of your darkroom? Thank you for your videos!

[jiving]

Interesting, would this technique work on black aluminum plates, using the wet plate technique

[beccavichi]

Hi! I love the process of solarization and I want to use it for a project I am working on. What type of paper do you use because I read it is better to use certain types over others?

[violetb.]

this is so cool im gonna try it next week. do i have to remove it from the developer and out it into water, or can i just flash it quick while its still developing? its a school darkroom theres not a ton of room :)) thanks for the video tho super helpful

[Goldsteinphoto]

While solarization is the common term this is actually pseudo-solarization....the Sabatier effect.