From this simple, mechanical process, a luminous, poignant story takes shape.
But by virtue of a mostly earth-toned palette and a splintery and luminous Cubism achieved by processes that include stenciling, spraying and fine-line brushing, they have a shadowy, kaleidoscopic quality.
Data were processed with Luminous software.
When hot materials become luminous and radiate light, a process called incandescence, the atoms of the material are in a high state of agitation.
Yet they are slightly softened because of the way the paper absorbed the photographic emulsion and because the platinum process emphasizes a luminous middle range of gray tones rather than black-and-white-contrasts. The flowers are shot against blank, gray backgrounds and are cropped so that each perfectly composed arrangement of blossoms, stems and leaves verges on abstraction.
Historically, the process of transient luminous event (TLE) detection has required an alert human observer on a low light level television (LLTV) monitor, either in real time or playback.
Its 175 pages are a luminous introduction to the precarious processes of death and fossilisation, and the even more haphazard adventures of discovery.
"In the process we may become luminous, firm, and supple, but the most important thing is to allow our hearts to be more open".
They are small and oddly ethereal for the most part, but as luminous as yellowcake, that milled, chemically processed uranium powder.
Two independent high speed cameras were spontaneously employed to capture the self-luminous images of the whole hypergolic ignition process as well as the initial impact process.
