Palace Arcade, Lith

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  Shawn Dougherty

• Nov 26, 2009

Gorgeous place so finely presented.

 

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  Shaggysk8

• Nov 26, 2009

I agree with you.

I like the lightness of this image.

 

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  MVNelson

• Nov 26, 2009

it is quite nice ....

 

• mike c

• Nov 26, 2009

Nice patterns and very light hi key sort of .

 

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  davido

• Nov 26, 2009

beautifully seen and realized.

-david

 

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  Mike Té

• Nov 27, 2009

Superbly delicate touch.

 

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  thefizz

• Nov 27, 2009

What everyone else said, excellent.

 

• roy

• Nov 27, 2009

I love this high key treatment too. How was it done ?

 

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  sly

• Nov 27, 2009

It's a lith print, Roy. Lith gives lots of possibilities from grainy, gritty, dark and moody to tenous, creamy high-key like this. You can even get both in the same print. It's all about the snatch point (and the exposure, and the paper, and the dilution of the developer, the temp, how old it is, and of course, the negative you start with.) Lith takes darkroom work to whole new levels of ecstasy and frustration. Addictive.....
Search APUG for posts on lith - especially Tim Rudman - the guru and master of lith.

 

• roy

• Nov 28, 2009

What I really meant "sly" was whether to obtain this effect you had a negative exposed for the result you got or whether you used a different dilution to produce this. I have never experimented with high key lith but must do so as I do like to photograph and print light coloured objects, mainly floral. I have obtained some satisfying lith results but have never gone into it in a big way.