Discovered more photographs while trying to locate the tower. Still no sign of the tower. Here we have a couple of examples of Solarization. This technique is listed under Advanced Manipulations in the fully revised edition of The Darkroom Handbook by Michael Langford (1989).
As The Darkroom Handbook says:
Solarization (or, more accurately, the "Sabatier effect") involves fogging an image to light part way through development. This has the effect of darkening undeveloped areas, and reversing some of the tones. It also forms a fine, clear "Mackie line" along the borders of originally light and dark areas.
Some of these effects can be seen in the above image, the image below is less successful.
Here in the modern age, where everything is better and complex techniques are now computerised, it takes about two clicks to create a very unconvincing version of the same technique using Adobe Photoshop.
I'll spare you an example of the Photoshop version as it has absolutely no redeeming features. Why is the Photoshop solarize so completely and utterly pants? No wait, I'm not interested.
*Those in the know will spot that the images above are not solarization, I can't find the solarizations either... Cheeky huh.
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