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The term '''solarization''' in |
The term '''solarization''' in [[Photography]] is used to describe the effect of ''tone reversal'' observed in cases of extreme [[Exposure (photography)|overexposure]] of the [[Photographic film|photographic film]] in the [[camera]]. Most likely, the effect was first observed in scenery photographs including the sun (e.q. sol, sun). The sun, instead of being the whitest spot in the image, turned black or grey. [[Minor White]]'s photograph of a winter scene, ''The Black Sun 1955'',<ref>[http://www.boerner.net/jboerner/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/White_TheBlackSun_1955.jpg ''The Black Sun 1955'']</ref> was a result of the shutter of his camera freezing in the open position, resulting in partial overexposure.<ref name=Warren>{{cite book |last1=Warren |first1=Lynne |url=https://books.google.co.il/books?id=FLTyvuWX6MMC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA85#v=onepage&q&f=false |title=Encyclopedia of twentieth-century photography |date=2005|publisher=Routledge|location=New York|isbn=978-1-57958-393-4|pages=1459–1460}}</ref> Ansel Adams created an image titled ''Black Sun, Owens Valley, California (1939)'' by overexposure solarization.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://c300221.r21.cf1.rackcdn.com/the-black-sun-tungsten-hills-owens-valley-california-cleveland-museum-of-art-1391468118_b.jpg |title=''Black Sun, Owens Valley, California (1939)'' |access-date=2015-12-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222222147/http://c300221.r21.cf1.rackcdn.com/the-black-sun-tungsten-hills-owens-valley-california-cleveland-museum-of-art-1391468118_b.jpg |archive-date=2015-12-22 |dead-url=yes |df= }}</ref><ref name=Jolly>{{cite web|last1=Jolly|first1=William L.|title=Solarization Demystified: Historical, Artistic and Technical Aspects of the Sabatier-Effect|url=http://www.cchem.berkeley.edu/~wljeme/SOUTLINE.htm|accessdate=19 December 2015|date=1997}}{{dead link|date=September 2016|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> |
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==Definition== |
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| ⚫ | The solarization effect was already known to [[Daguerre]] and is one of the earliest known effects in photography. |
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When a photographic layer, suitable for solarization (see below), is exposed to actinic radiation, the resulting darkening after development will not increase steadily, but reaches a maximum which decreases under more intense exposure. In general is the phenomenon only then called solarization if the exposure has been produced in one "shot", meaning no pauses or double-exposures. The exposure to achieve solarization can be increased by exposure time or by increasing the light intensity<ref name ="Berg">{{Cite book |title=Die Grundlagen der photographischen Prozesse mit Silberhalogeniden |volume=3 |author=Berg et al |publisher=Akademischer Verlagsgesellschaft |location=Frankfurt am Main |year=1968 |pages=1217-1232 |oclc=310490074 |language=German}}</ref> |
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==History== |
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| ⚫ | The solarization effect was already known to ''[[Daguerre]]'' and is one of the earliest known effects in photography. ''[[John William Draper]]'' was the first to call the overexposure effect solarisation. [[John Herschel|''J.W.F. Herschel'']] already observed the reversal of the image from negative to positive by extreme overexposure in 1840.<ref name="Berg" /> Also[[Noël Paymal Lerebours| ''N.M.P. Lerebours'' ]] observed the phenomenon in 1842 (without him recognizing what it was) when he made a [[daguerreotype]] of an [[image]] of the [[sun]]. The result was seen as unsatisfactorily because the solar disk (image of the sun on the daguerreotype plate) was [[Overexposure|overexposed]] and solarized.<ref>{{cite book |last=Barger |first1=M. Susan |last2=White |first2=William B. |url=https://books.google.co.il/books?id=FLTyvuWX6MMC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA85#v=onepage&q&f=false |location=Baltimore and London |title=The Daguerreotype: Nineteenth-Century Technology and Modern Science |publisher=John Hopkins University Press |date=12 May 2000 |page=85 |isbn=9780801864582 }}</ref> ''L. Moser'' reported in 1843: "...that the light in the camera obscura produces at first the well known negative image; with continued action of the light the image turns into a positive image.... and recently I have obtained in fact on occasion a third image which is negative".<ref name="Berg" /> In 1880 [[Pierre Janssen|''Janssen'']] had obtained in the strongest sunlight a repetition of the solarization phenomena.<ref>{{cite book |last=Eder |first1=Josef Maria |title=History of Photography |chapter=LXIX. Photographic Analysis of Movement by Janssen and Marey |location=New York |publisher=Dover Publications, Inc. |year=1972 |page=506 |isbn=978-0-486-23586-8 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Launay |first1=François |title=The Astronomer Jules Janssen |chapter=The Method of Stellar Circles |chapter-url=https://books.google.co.il/books?id=3YaAup49nqoC&pg=PA116&lpg=PA116&dq=janssen+solarization&source=bl&ots=voZg3JMgBs&sig=AjsoYs1MKWN6Zpf4zkIk3WjIbUE&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiSo8O3-93fAhXJZ1AKHcIWC1UQ6AEwBHoECAUQAQ#v=onepage&q=janssen%20solarization&f=false |location=New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London |publisher=Springer |year=2012 |page=116 |isbn=978-146140-697-6 |accessdate=2019-01-08 }}</ref> |
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==Explanation<ref name="Berg" />== |
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Not every photographic layer exhibits solarization. Pure [[Chloride]] and [[Iodine]] based silver [[photographic emulsion|emulsions]] are difficult or unable to solarize. In general it can be stated that solarisation can only be observed if the photographic layer is capable to create a latent image inside the halide grain under exposure by actinic radiation.<ref name="Berg" /> |
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Many explanations have been given but until further notice the solarization was until 1929 generally understood as a combination of two main processes: the coagulation (clotting) and the regression process. |
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====Regression theory==== |
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The regression process theory was formulated by H. Luppo-Cramer in 1911, based on research by P. Hurter, V.C. Driffield and H. Luggin.<br> |
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By exposure the surface and the interior of a silver-bromide sphere will disintegrate by expulsion of bromide. Whereas the bromide on the surface can permeate away, the bromide can not so easily permeate away from the interior. The overexposure generates now a bromide pressure that escapes from the internal sphere and permeates to the surface where it oxidizes the latent image situated there, constituting the regular latent image under normal exposures. This destroys the latent image, because only silver on the surface can be developed. |
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====Coagulation theory==== |
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H. Arens published in 1925 a paper about reversal effects in which he concluded that solarization is based upon the finding that under increasing exposure the latent image successively coagulates and thus increases the size of each particular silverspeck. This again causes the silverspeck to lose its catalytic effect for the development. |
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====Brom migration theory==== |
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H. Kieser published in 1929 a paper in which he speculated about the possibility of bromide migration by [[Electron deficiency|defect electrons]] ([[Silver bromide#Photosensitivity| more: Photosensitivity]]). |
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In recent years an understanding has been agreed upon in which this bromide migration to the surface by overexposure forms a bromine condensation, resulting in bromine molecules or bromine atoms diffusing to the silverspecks of the latent image. Thus the latent image at the crystal surface can be re-[[Halogenation|halogenated]] by chemical reaction, notwithstanding an increase of the amount of latent image in the interior of the crystal. Still the regression and coagulation theories are believed to contribute up to a certain level to the solarization effect. |
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==Pseudo-solarization== |
==Pseudo-solarization== |
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{{Main|Sabattier effect}} |
{{Main|Sabattier effect}} |
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Pseudo-solarization is a phenomenon in [[photography]] whereby an image recorded on a |
Pseudo-solarization is a phenomenon in [[photography]] whereby an image recorded on a photographic film or paper is wholly or partially reversed in tone. Dark areas appear light or/and light areas appear dark. Solarisation and pseudo-solarisation are quite distinct effects. In many amateur darkroom publications the term "pseudo-solarization" has been shortened to "solarization".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://feltmagnet.com/photography/Photography-The-Sabattier-Effect |title=How To Solarize Black and White Photography - The Sabattier Effect |last=Lafenty |work=FeltMagnet |date=2016-04-10 |deadurl=no |archiveurl=https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:AIbOlxMteaoJ:https://feltmagnet.com/photography/Photography-The-Sabattier-Effect+&cd=6&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=il&lr=lang_en |archivedate=2019-01-04 |accessdate=2019-01-07 }}</ref> |
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==References== |
==References== |
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The term solarization in Photography is used to describe the effect of tone reversal observed in cases of extreme overexposure of the photographic film in the camera. Most likely, the effect was first observed in scenery photographs including the sun (e.q. sol, sun). The sun, instead of being the whitest spot in the image, turned black or grey. Minor White's photograph of a winter scene, The Black Sun 1955,[1] was a result of the shutter of his camera freezing in the open position, resulting in partial overexposure.[2] Ansel Adams created an image titled Black Sun, Owens Valley, California (1939) by overexposure solarization.[3][4]
Definition
When a photographic layer, suitable for solarization (see below), is exposed to actinic radiation, the resulting darkening after development will not increase steadily, but reaches a maximum which decreases under more intense exposure. In general is the phenomenon only then called solarization if the exposure has been produced in one "shot", meaning no pauses or double-exposures. The exposure to achieve solarization can be increased by exposure time or by increasing the light intensity[5]
History
The solarization effect was already known to Daguerre and is one of the earliest known effects in photography. John William Draper was the first to call the overexposure effect solarisation. J.W.F. Herschel already observed the reversal of the image from negative to positive by extreme overexposure in 1840.[5] Also N.M.P. Lerebours observed the phenomenon in 1842 (without him recognizing what it was) when he made a daguerreotype of an image of the sun. The result was seen as unsatisfactorily because the solar disk (image of the sun on the daguerreotype plate) was overexposed and solarized.[6] L. Moser reported in 1843: "...that the light in the camera obscura produces at first the well known negative image; with continued action of the light the image turns into a positive image.... and recently I have obtained in fact on occasion a third image which is negative".[5] In 1880 Janssen had obtained in the strongest sunlight a repetition of the solarization phenomena.[7][8]
Explanation[5]
Not every photographic layer exhibits solarization. Pure Chloride and Iodine based silver emulsions are difficult or unable to solarize. In general it can be stated that solarisation can only be observed if the photographic layer is capable to create a latent image inside the halide grain under exposure by actinic radiation.[5] Many explanations have been given but until further notice the solarization was until 1929 generally understood as a combination of two main processes: the coagulation (clotting) and the regression process.
Regression theory
The regression process theory was formulated by H. Luppo-Cramer in 1911, based on research by P. Hurter, V.C. Driffield and H. Luggin.
By exposure the surface and the interior of a silver-bromide sphere will disintegrate by expulsion of bromide. Whereas the bromide on the surface can permeate away, the bromide can not so easily permeate away from the interior. The overexposure generates now a bromide pressure that escapes from the internal sphere and permeates to the surface where it oxidizes the latent image situated there, constituting the regular latent image under normal exposures. This destroys the latent image, because only silver on the surface can be developed.
Coagulation theory
H. Arens published in 1925 a paper about reversal effects in which he concluded that solarization is based upon the finding that under increasing exposure the latent image successively coagulates and thus increases the size of each particular silverspeck. This again causes the silverspeck to lose its catalytic effect for the development.
Brom migration theory
H. Kieser published in 1929 a paper in which he speculated about the possibility of bromide migration by defect electrons ( more: Photosensitivity).
In recent years an understanding has been agreed upon in which this bromide migration to the surface by overexposure forms a bromine condensation, resulting in bromine molecules or bromine atoms diffusing to the silverspecks of the latent image. Thus the latent image at the crystal surface can be re-halogenated by chemical reaction, notwithstanding an increase of the amount of latent image in the interior of the crystal. Still the regression and coagulation theories are believed to contribute up to a certain level to the solarization effect.
Pseudo-solarization
Pseudo-solarization is a phenomenon in photography whereby an image recorded on a photographic film or paper is wholly or partially reversed in tone. Dark areas appear light or/and light areas appear dark. Solarisation and pseudo-solarisation are quite distinct effects. In many amateur darkroom publications the term "pseudo-solarization" has been shortened to "solarization".[9]
References
- ^ The Black Sun 1955
- ^ Warren, Lynne (2005). Encyclopedia of twentieth-century photography. New York: Routledge. pp. 1459–1460. ISBN 978-1-57958-393-4.
- ^ "Black Sun, Owens Valley, California (1939)". Archived from the original on 2015-12-22. Retrieved 2015-12-19.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|dead-url=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ Jolly, William L. (1997). "Solarization Demystified: Historical, Artistic and Technical Aspects of the Sabatier-Effect". Retrieved 19 December 2015.[dead link]
- ^ a b c d e Berg; et al. (1968). Die Grundlagen der photographischen Prozesse mit Silberhalogeniden (in German). Vol. 3. Frankfurt am Main: Akademischer Verlagsgesellschaft. pp. 1217–1232. OCLC 310490074.
{{cite book}}: Explicit use of et al. in:|author=(help) - ^ Barger, M. Susan; White, William B. (12 May 2000). The Daguerreotype: Nineteenth-Century Technology and Modern Science. Baltimore and London: John Hopkins University Press. p. 85. ISBN 9780801864582.
- ^ Eder, Josef Maria (1972). "LXIX. Photographic Analysis of Movement by Janssen and Marey". History of Photography. New York: Dover Publications, Inc. p. 506. ISBN 978-0-486-23586-8.
- ^ Launay, François (2012). "The Method of Stellar Circles". The Astronomer Jules Janssen. New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London: Springer. p. 116. ISBN 978-146140-697-6. Retrieved 2019-01-08.
- ^ Lafenty (2016-04-10). "How To Solarize Black and White Photography - The Sabattier Effect". FeltMagnet. Archived from the original on 2019-01-04. Retrieved 2019-01-07.
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