3 Create distinctive digital solarisations
Produce eye-catching artworks from photos taken on your daily walk, using a 19thcentury darkroom technique that’s easily replicated in software.
By Simeon Meinema
Daily lockdown walks close to home can offer a myriad of photographic opportunities, whether you take your subjects from the natural world or the built environment. One way to give your lockdown captures a look that will really stand out is to create digital solarisations of them in post-processing.
The 19th-century pioneers of photography produced prints where the tones of the photographs would be reversed – an effect known as the Sabattier effect or pseudo-solarisation. This darkroom technique is easy realised with image-editing software, for example by using Photoshop’s Invert function and Solarisation filter.