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Question: I want to make a short film using a particular photographic technique ive seen on an advert but i dont know!.!.!?
what its called!. do you!?

in the advert there is a futuristic sterile all-white space inhabited by ghostly white people!. the effect is like but unlike a photo-negative: all the flesh tones that would enable you to instantly recognize a specific person, are sort of bleached out!. you can see every line on a persons face but would find it hard to recognize if it was you own wife on screen!.
the ideal application of it seems to be in something about mythical or archetypal persons, because the individual actor is unrecognizable!.!.!.only the unidentifiable archetypal human comes across!.

the thing is, the technique wasnt like an xray where the blacks and whites are the wrong way round!.!.!.it was more like white faced people in white clothes on a background of white snow!.!.!.the colours seemed to be right!.!.!.its just that only the texture/lines of a face were visible, not the flesh tones!.!.!.like seeing every fine line of twig and branch in a winter landscape with all the colour bleached out!.

any ideas!?

[the ghostly advert was by nokia]Www@QuestionHome@Com


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
You may be talking about solarization!. It works best on black and white photography with a slow speed film in the enlargment stage!. (in the old days I used Kodak's K film)!. It's tricky to get right!. You need to expose the film to light as you are making the picture, but the affect can be dramaticWww@QuestionHome@Com

Don't know, sorry!.Www@QuestionHome@Com