Long time photographer with questions about solarizing modern color film.

Long time portrait photographer. Recently interested in solarizing modern color film.
If anyone has any info links to this please let me know.
Many Thanks
-Paul

IG
langstoncarter.com
PS: Just trying to get through this 20 post thing...

Welcome to Photrio.
If you remove the website links from your posts, they will probably go through without delay.
And then when you are over the 20 post threshold, you can add them back to your signature.
In the meantime, I'll move this to the Colour Film sub-forum and edit your title so people will note your question and be more likely to respond.
Don't be surprised if there is discussion about the use of the term "solarized"

Feel free to link to examples of what you are looking for.
And also feel free to tell us more about yourself in an introduction post.

MattKing said:

Welcome to Photrio.
If you remove the website links from your posts, they will probably go through without delay.
And then when you are over the 20 post threshold, you can add them back to your signature.
In the meantime, I'll move this to the Colour Film sub-forum and edit your title so people will note your question and be more likely to respond.
Don't be surprised if there is discussion about the use of the term "solarized"

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Great.
Thanks Matt

MattKing said:

Don't be surprised if there is discussion about the use of the term "solarized"

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Someone had to do this...

A photograph is solarised by exposing the negative in the normal way and developing. It is taken out of the developer after a third of the normal time, sponged off, exposed to light and developed to its normal duration.

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Newnes Complete Amateur Photography. Edited by M. Lillington Hall. 1958

Phil Davis in Beyond the Zone System (Second Edition) defines solarization as desensitising of emulsion (and decrease in negative density) when exposure increases past the shoulder of the film characteristic curve.

If you provide additional details on what you are trying to achieve it would be very helpful.

plcarter said:

Long time portrait photographer. Recently interested in solarizing modern color film.
If anyone has any info links to this please let me know.
Many Thanks
-Paul

IG
langstoncarter.com
PS: Just trying to get through this 20 post thing...

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Hey Paul, I like the your work a lot!

I have never solarized negatives, only b&w prints. But… contributor Bob Carnie on this site has done a great deal of solarization in color. Hopefully you can get in touch with him and see his work.

-Bruce

btaylor said:

contributor Bob Carnie on this site has done a great deal of solarization in color

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Yeah, but I think he hasn't been on this board for a while. Here's his website, though: https://www.silvershack.ca/ It includes contact info. He's also active on the Large Format Photography forum - at least he still was last time I visited.

I've never solarized (Sabattier-processed) color negative film. RA4 color paper, yes, on occasion. It's fast material, so timing the flash exposure is kind of critical. And there's of course the color of the light used for the flash exposure which plays a large role. These days with dial-a-color LED trinkets (see e.g. eBay, AliExpress etc.) I imagine it's easier than before to experiment with different color effects.

I've only tried solarization -- whatever that means -- with prints, many years ago.

Coincidentally, my Minolta A2 digital camera has a "SOLARIZATION" color mode built-in. I'll have to check it out.

plcarter said:

Long time portrait photographer. Recently interested in solarizing modern color film.
If anyone has any info links to this please let me know.
Many Thanks
-Paul

IG
langstoncarter.com
PS: Just trying to get through this 20 post thing...

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Welcome to APUG Photrio!!