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Back to this week’s image. I wanted to play around with solarization. Solarisation (or solarization) is a phenomenon in photography in which the image recorded on aa negative or on a photographic print is wholly or partially reversed in tone. Dark areas appear light or light areas appear dark. The term is synonymous with the Sabattier effect when referring to negatives, but is technically incorrect when used to refer to prints. (wikipedia)
You can create solarized images in Silver Efex and Photoshop. However I decided to use Lightroom and a Plugin called Enfuse. Enfuse is a plugin for creating HDR images primarily.
In Lightroom I converted my before image to black and white. I then made a virtual copy and reversed the curve to create a negative image. I then merged the two images together with Enfuse.
The image that came out of Enfuse was very grey (something I am used to when i do this) I played around with the settings to create a nice tone. There are two approaches to toning, Dark and contrasted, Bright with softer but still strong contrast. I finally split toned the image to add some more Depth to the image.
The effect was quite alien at first , but has slowly grown on me.
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That is very cool. But why didn’t you just blend them in Lightroom? Is Enfuse different somehow?
Great as always!!