Solarisation // Experimental

Solarisation has been used by many photographers and still is. Discovered by Man Ray, solarisation  is an interesting process as it starts off normally, by exposing the paper to the light of the enlarger then putting it in the developer. That's where the usual process stops, as you only put it in the developer for a fraction of the time - that being 10 seconds, after which you remove it and quickly expose light to the whole image evenly, then you put it back in the developer and carry on the process as usual.

My solarised images are below.

 The image above, I have previously posted on the post on the negative, which is called Two negatives cut and stuck together.

 The image above had a normal negative used, but cling film was on the paper to create the bunched up lines. So this image involves two experimental techniques, being a material on top of the paper during exposure to light, as well as solarisation.

 The image above is of a piece of printed tissue paper in the negative slot of the enlarger, this not a common thing to do in the enlarger, so therefore is an experimental technique within itself. Along with the solarisation, making the image having two types of experimental techniques used.

Finally, the image above is a negative of a portrait, which has been solarised to create blacks and greys within the image limiting the whites.

Overall I am very happy with my solarised images as they have all been done with different negatives and different additional techniques, which makes each of them unique to the other.