Lumenprints, ...I know, everybody make it, but ....

Everytime, when I need my efforts to an important job, I get a lot of other ideas and inspirations...
Do you know this?
This time I've seen videos about Lumen-Prints.
Analoge photography on light-sensitive photo-papier without chemicals?
Wow, what colors, what posibilities. So I took 3 of my old 9 x 12 cm - Cameras and start in the middle of night with Lumen-Photography.

Camera & Object (with day-light)

The problem: it was impossible to find the right field of sharpness on the screen. It was really too dark... But I didn't like to wait, and wanted to go to bed.
I hoped to get some marvellouse Lumen-Prints when I get up at high noon...
This was the theory...

But what I've got, was that:

Lumenprint on photo-paper, exposing time about 7 hrs.

Ok.
It is the negative, but where are the colors?
Later, I find out, that the colors are on this black/white-photo-paper, but only very, very light.
The next step was, to make some digitally "remasterings".

The same Lumenprint, after the digital-process.

Now I take a new photo on usually light-sensitive foto-paper, in the daylight, exposure-time = 40 minutes.

Lumenprint, 40 min. after fixing (yes, with chemicals) and additional exposing with UV-light.

To protect the negatives, I fix them with usually foto-fixer. Then I rocognized, that they became more contrast, when they are laying in day-light (UV-light), after fixing.

Photo from above, after digital inverting.

Digital print from the same photo, after playing with photoshop and so.

Same photo. After I've find out, how to manipulate and controll the colors.

...and your Lumen-Prints?

Show me ;-)

-ekk-

IT WORKS!

Yesterday I've taken pictures with my Agfa-Clack-Pinhole.
"So what?", do you think.
Oh, I've take the pic with an exposure-time of 1/30 with the 0.2 mm Pinhole.
"So that!"
Ok, it was a sunny day, I've used a Ilford 3'200 ASA - b/w-film and developed it in DD-X for 22 min / 24°C. So the film was pushed to more then 12'500 ASA (17 min / 20 °C).

The School across from my studio. Sunny day, 1/30, f 270.

Same situation, but extremly shadows in this "selfie". Sunshine from above, rest in the shadow.

The same scan, a little bit digital "remastered"..