Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Exposure to the action of the rays of the sun.
- noun In photography, the injurious effects produced on a negative by over-exposing it in the camera to the light of the sun, as blurring of outlines, obliteration of high lights, loss of relief, etc.; also, the effects on a print resulting from over-printing the sensitized paper or other medium.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Photog.) Injury of a photographic picture caused by exposing it for too long a time to the sun's light in the camera; burning; excessive insolation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun photography Whole or partial
reversal oftone in anegative or photographicprint , such that dark areas appear light or vice versa.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun exposure to the rays of the sun
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Examples
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Man Ray's "Solarized Male Torso" uses a method known as solarization, introducing light as part of the developing process, and is projected to bring at least $70,000.
A Star-Filled Spring of Photo Auctions Stan Sesser 2011
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Thus, when immersing a plate sensitive to all radiations, visible and invisible, in a very dilute solution of nitric acid, bichromate of potash, or hydroxyl, it was shown that if the plate were exposed to light, first the parts acted upon by the red rays were reduced before the parts not acted upon at all by the spectrum, thus conclusively proving that light itself helped forward the oxidation or so-called solarization of the image.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883 Various
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These X-rays darken the acrylic by introducing defects color centers in a process called solarization.
Archive 2007-02-01 2007
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These X-rays darken the acrylic by introducing defects color centers in a process called solarization.
Lichtenberg Figures 2007
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Occasionally during my darkroom days, I experimented with solarization of photographs that were still being developed by turning the room light on for a very brief period, a second, perhaps.
Archive 2006-12-01 AYDIN 2006
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Occasionally during my darkroom days, I experimented with solarization of photographs that were still being developed by turning the room light on for a very brief period, a second, perhaps.
My black sun AYDIN 2006
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But Leigh Miller worked for him and was a-- a lover of ManRay's for a while, and she accidentally in the darkroom, by turning the lights on when she wasn't supposed to, invented a technique he called solari -- they call solarization of prints.
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Expose an impressioned plate, that has been sufficient time in the camera to become solarized, to the vapors of bromine, and the impression will be fully developed and exhibit no signs of solarization.
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To prevent solarization, coat a plate as usual, expose to the action of light any required time
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This I am led to believe is occasioned by the action of light on the yet sensitive portions of the plate, and made to appear only by subsequent exposure to mercury, being equivalent to solarization.
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