E-Man Ray-ed #2

Fantastic. I wish I could have seen the exhibit. It is amazing what difference it makes looking at works of such great artists as Man Ray hanging on wall as opposed to pages in a book or catalog.

Thanks Aref! As I said I had twice to have such a hallucinating experience. First time I went a to huge exhibition of his in Paris. It took 3 hours to finish. I went out of it fully Bananas!! Ionly ask myslef how he did this work analogue? I was analysing one of hos pictures in order to ty to emitate per PS but I did not conclude how to do that! Did he solarize the negatives or the positives?? I wanted to ask in the exhibit but they were to busy to answer me

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It is very hard to solarize the negative although negatives of that time were much slower than those of today and so it is possible to do it. However, just because of the fact that if you mis you lose the negative it is not recommended to try to solarize the negative. I have managed to do solarization in photoshop. The trick is not to use the filter and work in layers. One technique is to duplicate the original into a new layer and use curves adjustment to reverse the tones--grab the ends of the line and push up/down to the opposite end. Then I blur just a bit and adjust contrast--if the contrast is not strong--and blend. Try different blendings and see what you get. Another technique is to use the high-pass filter to get the edges, adjust contrast to get almost black lines for the edges and white for the rest, blur and blend. I hope this helps.