Orchids

• bsdunek

• Jun 13, 2016

Love the look of this! Seems very detailed for a Lith print, but in this case, that really makes it.

 

• MrBrowning

• Jun 13, 2016

@bsdunek Thank you very much. I agree the details came out very nice especially for a 2nd pass lith. Up until last night I've struggled to get good details for some reason.

 

• Bob Carnie

• Jun 13, 2016

The print is solarizing quite beautifully I am not overly fond of flowers but this is quite nice balance and tones.

 

• MrBrowning

• Jun 13, 2016

@Bob Carnie Thank you. Honestly I don't care much for solarization except with flowers. For some reason the two seem (to me) to work well together.

 

• Bob Carnie

• Jun 13, 2016

What is creating the solarization, the second pass? I have never done second pass lith so this effect intrigues me.

 

• MrBrowning

• Jun 13, 2016

Yes. The picture was developed in LPD paper developer and over exposed by about 1/2 a stop then bleached in potassium ferricyanide, wash and then redeveloped under room light until the solarization was just slightly noticeable. At that point I killed the light and let the print finish developing. I have another that I'm going to post later that came out pretty interesting also.

Edit: I bleach until most of the shadow detail was gone with only the deepest black remaining.

 

• Bob Carnie

• Jun 13, 2016

Are you going back into the lith developer after the bleach? why do you need to kill the lights?, sorry for my ignorance on this

 

• MrBrowning

• Jun 13, 2016

Yes After the bleach I went to the lith developer. I killed the lights (room light not red light) because when I left them on I had prints with to much solarization. Not sure why it happened but after I started turning the room light off I seemed to have better control.

 

• Bob Carnie

• Jun 13, 2016

thanks

 

• MrBrowning

• Jun 13, 2016

@Bob Carnie Welcome.