How can i get images simmilar to Black Opal_2005?

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film photography is a recent direction i have taken over the last few months and im still new to the whole process, so this might be a nooby question. what is the technique in his style of pictures? looks to me as if plenty of grain blown out highlights and maybe pushed to 1600 or higher? if anyone could shed some light on what they think is the case here i would be very appreciative. (does this have anything to do with underexposing a few stops then pushing the film later?)
 
TOSHIHIRO OKADA, Japan.

It looks very close to lith.
High ISO isn't going to make anything significant. It looks like he is using some funky MF camera known for it lens and else.
Back to lith. You could not only print in it, but develop film in it.
One thing I haven't tried yet is to make it double.
 
It looks like it’s been printed dark on silver paper and bleached. But it might just be clever post processing.

Marty
 
If you screw up the exposure, development, and printing you're halfway there already! But you still won't have images like the ones on that website. You'll just have badly made photographs. His photographs work because of his great eye, wonderful sense of composition and a lot of other things that make his work art. I wasn't familiar w/ him (his name is Toshihiro Okada), but really, really like what I saw. Thanks for the link. Some of his images evoke Man Ray. I found very little about him on the web. His images are the best photographs I have seen in many a year.

https://contrastedgallery.wordpress.com/2014/05/24/black-opal/#jp-carousel-320
 
I have been wondering the same thing about digital images shot more or less in the same or similar style - you will see some of them here in favorite images I have tagged from other posters on Flickr (including a couple of shots from Black Opal after seeing them in your opening post).

https://www.flickr.com/photos/life_in_shadows/favorites

I cannot say how to do it with analogue film but in digital I think it is possible to reproduce the effect by a combination of extreme contrast, a detail extraction filter (something of this sort is available in Nik Analogue Efex), one or more texture overlays and a fairly severe blur filter. I have been considering trying it myself but have not yet given it a go.

An example from a shooter named Blue Moles here:

What it is by Blue Moles, on Flickr
 
It looks like chemical Lith printing in the darkroom. Getting certain looks is determinate on paper, exposure, chemical, and negative density. With that, it's all trial and error. I do a lot of lith printing in the darkroom, and the chemical I use the most is by Arista and Morcshe. They are both 2 part solutions. You can mix your chemical at different ratios, and get different results. In my experience, older fiber based paper tends to yield characteristics to the person you provided.

There is reading material out there that you can quickly google on the subject.

Goodluck on the experimental journey of lith printing!
 
Looks like Lith printing to me too.

Take a look at the work of Anton Corbijn, or master printer Tim Rudman for more examples.
 
thanks to flickr's wonderful reliability, i can't comment on most of the photos shown here.

however, if you want to do lith and shy away from chemical processing, my friend Rüdiger created a program that quite convincingly emulates the lith process on digital pictures.

you can find it here: http://dlp.zonev.de/

(for the ones with a good memory - i mentioned this before.)

cheers,
sebastian
 
Those are clearly lith prints done in the darkroom. There is evidence that a lot are half frame and a few seem to be medium format.
 
PRJ said:
Those are clearly lith prints done in the darkroom. There is evidence that a lot are half frame and a few seem to be medium format.
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Very interesting. How can you tell specifically that some are half/medium? Im more on the new side to film. But isint medium format used for the use of quality? Yet lith scanning is the opposite to quality. Am i missing something?
 
I believe he used several different techniques some on the same photos one of them washi film, some of the photographs were made with lith or some other high contrast film, some with normal film and lith printed and some on washi film and lith printed. Some probably also received the Ralph Gibson Treatment severely overexposed and overdeveloped.
 
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