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Sabbatier Profile

	Sabbatier Profile This was a class assignment for my Intermediate Photography class when I was in college in the 80s. It's been a frame ever since, this is the first time I've scanned it. Christopher A. Vedros

I got this very nice comment from a member by email: "Wow Chris, this is the most interesting photo I have ever seen. Congrats, on this "Wow" factor. I would like to know how you created it please."

Here's the background on this image: The assignment was to alter a print using the Sabbatier effect.

For anyone not familiar with it, you expose a print normally, put it in the developer until the image starts to appear, then pull it out and expose it to white light, then complete the developing. You end up with bright lines along edges between light and dark areas, and it looks something like solarization. The effect works best with high contrast images.

I chose a profile of my girlfriend (now my wife) as my starting image. I didn't really print it with enough contrast, though, so the effect only worked on part of the image. I was very pleased with the results, though.

What makes this image very special to me is that it's one-of-a-kind. I repeated the process several times, but couldn't get it to come out anywhere close to this again.

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