Sabatier or Solarised is a tecnique in photography in which the negative of a photograph is completely or slightly changed in tone. In a nutshell, dark is light and light is dark.
This tecnique can be created by over exposing the negative of an image or, as with almost all aspects of photography, can be created within Photoshop.
Some great articles on Solarization :
Solarization and Inversion »
Solarization on Wikipedia »
Unblinking Eye – Controlling the Sabatier Effect »
Could someone please tell me the proper spelling: is it Solarised or Solarized?
Orthodox Church
This picture won Best Special Effects Image, and Best Year 12/13 exhibit in show at the 2003 Royal Adelaide Show.
New York Sabatier
A photo of New York City taken from the Brooklyn Bridge.
Nihonbashi
Do Not Adjust Your Monitor
Peace Garden Bridge
This is a B&W image with minimal sabatier effect.
Branching
Darkroom sabatier effect.
Manrayish
Stazione Centrale
Marriott
Mariott Hotel in San Francisco with Sabatier Effect.
Going off the Rails
Solarisation is sometimes called the “black sky effect” – you can see why.
Alley
Hatfield House
Sydney Harbour Bridge Revolution
Two trees
Blue Steel
This was a partial solarization on Kodalith sheet film of an original B&W neg.
Zen2
Brooklyn Roundhouse
Fairford Parish Church
Solarize
A Solarized Boat
End of the Road
Eye of the Solar Storm
5 MILE BRIDGE
Vancouver, Canada
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23 Feb, 2009
Fantastic; Really, really cool pics. :-))
23 Feb, 2009
Some really nice photos here. Great job.
24 Feb, 2009
Amazing photos, I wasn’t aware about the possibilities of using solarised photos.
25 Feb, 2009
I think you should provide a credit on this page for the photographers who created these images.I also think you should provide copyright information about these images on this page so no one gets confused and believes that these are part of the FREE and HIGH QUALITY RESOURCES that you are trying to provide.
24 Jul, 2009
Some great photos up there. Nice to include the link back to their Flickr pages.
As for the question of spelling. It depends where in the world you’re from. US English generally tends to use “z” for a lot of words (ie – optimization) whereas UK English would use “s” (optimisation).