David Bauman Photography

 

About the Photographs

Most of the photographs within this site are color and shot with Minolta, Olympus, and Nikon 35mm cameras. Kodachrome has always been my film of choice for several reasons: sharpness, brightness of color, color saturation through underexposure, and its archival properties. And when Kodachrome didn't have enough color, I resorted to the following films and processes.

 

"The Process"
Originally developed by Walt Allen, an Ohio University professor, to develop color slide film to a negative which would enhance the natural colors. It was based on the E-3 process with an additional B&W developer and bleach. The entire process usually took about 50 minutes to complete. Rick McKee started experimenting with this process and was substituting normal slide film with Kodak color infrared film. The results were bright, bold colors especially in the negative areas. Some of his results were so striking that the process became known as "The Process." I tried to duplicate Rick's results but could not consistently get the beautiful colors. I remedied this by re-exposing the film (sabatier effect) during the first development process with a small electronic flash covered with a colored gel filter. Because the film was wet during this re-exposure, some of the water drops on the film became part of the final image.
Olympus
Bell Building
Wild
Color Infrared Film
The photos that have the deep cyan and magenta colors are the result of combining green and yellow wratten filters over the lens. I found that the brightest colors were achieved under full sun in the early afternoon during the months of June and July. I also achieved beautiful muted cyan and magenta colors with the same filtration on completely overcast or rainy day. Usually, the only other filter I would use with color Infrared film was a glass polarizer. Combinations of the polarizing filter with variations of the green and yellow wratten filters would usually bring out red, yellow, and brown colors. I found these colors desirable for my nature photography.
Old Boat Docks, Mill Creek Park
Telegraph Swamp, Mill Creek Park
Rick McKee (right) and I along the coast, south of San Francisco
Graphics
Many of the graphic images are contact prints from slides using color print film. Colors were enhanced by adding the sabatier effect during the developer stage of this C-22 process. To make the color outline within the image, I would create line drawings from the slides and sandwich these with the originals before making the print. The sabatier effect would put color into these lines, depending on color filtration.
Youngstown Businessman
(roll-over for original image)
Youngstown Clown
OSU Bandconductor
Posterizations
The posterizations are standard 4 color separations. The separations are made in an enlarger by projecting the 35mm slide onto 4"x 5" high contrast films. These films are then put in register with each other and exposed onto a single frame of 35 mm film with specific colors. (4 exposures per posterized image)
Yield, Mill Creek Park
Henry Moore, Touch