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**Vaughn** · 14-Oct-2018, 12:42

Great sky works great with the land!

**Erik Larsen** · 14-Oct-2018, 17:14

Originally Posted by Vaughn

Great sky works great with the land!

Thanks Vaughn, the skies have been great lately out here. Think I could have exposed about 25% less on the print to bring a little sparkle to the highlights...

**Emil Schildt** · 19-Oct-2018, 08:14

experimenting on orotones - lots to learn, but slowly getting somewhere....

**Leigh** · 19-Oct-2018, 09:26

Originally Posted by Emil Schildt

experimenting on orotones - lots to learn, but slowly getting somewhere....

Hi Emil,

Very nice.

In the US, we call that gold tone.

- Leigh

**Denny** · 19-Oct-2018, 12:08

If it has a gold leaf backing, at least some of us in the US call it an orotone or orotype. I've done these with platinum on vellum and epson pigment on vellum, in each case backed by gold leaf.

**Monty McCutchen** · 19-Oct-2018, 12:50

Originally Posted by Erik Larsen

Thanks Vaughn, the skies have been great lately out here. Think I could have exposed about 25% less on the print to bring a little sparkle to the highlights...

The print is fantastic as is imo! Beautiful photograph Erik.

**dpn** · 19-Oct-2018, 15:04

Here are two different versions of a squid lumen diptych.

1. This first version with psychedelic colors is a scan of the paper (expired Kodak Ultra Endura 8x10 color paper), still warm from the sun and wet with the squid gore. I expand the existing colors that are present in the wet/warm/blasted color photo paper using Levels in the Epson Scan software. Printed on Epson Metallic Glossy photo paper, these guys look great. Bringing out the levels in the scan may be cheating, but I love the crazy colors I get. The smell was similarly crazy, but not in a good way. I felt like I owed my scanner an apology afterwards.

Squid Lumen Diptych by Iggy Bug, on Flickr

2. This second version is a scan of the same photo paper after it has been fixed and toned in selenium. I use levels in the Epson Scan program to pull the existing blues out of the toned paper. This may also be cheating, but I like the results.

Squid Lumen Diptych by Iggy Bug, on Flickr

If anyone is curious, here's a shot of the lumen in progress. My exposure time was between 2 and 3 hours, and I used saran wrap to keep the flies off and add a bit more "background" to the lumen.

Squid Lumen in Process by Iggy Bug, on Flickr

**dpn** · 19-Oct-2018, 15:10

Here's an octopus lumen print. This was a 2-3 hour exposure on 16x20 Ilford Warmtone RC paper, which I fixed and toned in selenium. Unlike the squid diptych above, these colors are "real".

Octopus Lumen by Iggy Bug, on Flickr

Here a shot of the exposure in progress. My neighbors think I'm weird.

Octopus Lumen in Process by Iggy Bug, on Flickr

**Erik Larsen** · 21-Oct-2018, 18:13

Originally Posted by Monty McCutchen

The print is fantastic as is imo! Beautiful photograph Erik.

Thanks Monty!

**Erik Larsen** · 21-Oct-2018, 18:14

Originally Posted by dpn

Here's an octopus lumen print. This was a 2-3 hour exposure on 16x20 Ilford Warmtone RC paper, which I fixed and toned in selenium. Unlike the squid diptych above, these colors are "real".

Octopus Lumen by Iggy Bug, on Flickr

Here a shot of the exposure in progress. My neighbors think I'm weird.

Octopus Lumen in Process by Iggy Bug, on Flickr

These are cool! Might I ask, where does one find an octopus?