TONIZATION
Well, by Tonization I mean a new photographic technique, original –
previously inexistent – created and named by me, in August 19, 2013.
Tonization consists of putting any curved transparent object between a
pinhole photographic camera and the scene which one wants to photograph
with the pinhole camera, and to photograph. The object must possess
curved surfaces of any shapes and be made of any material with enough
optical transparency for the light to cross it with low lost of intensity,
including plastics under mechanical stress, very hot air, etc – without
color or colored.
Pinhole camera is any photographic “camera obscura”, handmade or not,
with one or more small holes in place of the objectives, without lenses,
which allows external light to enter through the hole(s) and incident on a
film or an image scanner circuit.
Normally, only with pinhole cameras the resulting images have less
sharpness in comparison to cameras with lenses, have irregular bleeds
because of the handmade construction of the cameras, possess diffraction
effects, “vignette” effect, with entering of light at random, and are
defocused because of the infinite focus of these cameras.
The images have idyllic appearance, giving artistic subjective sensations.
And, optically transparent curved material surfaces between the pinhole
camera and the scenes being photographed, the resulting images are
distorted – also with shadows and bright lights – with light dispersions,
optical birefringence, etc., and with forms and colors that can be abstract,
surrealist, fauvist, expressionist, cubist, impressionist, fantastic surrealist,
etc., which were not present in the scene. This original photographic
technique I call it Tonization.
TONIZATION by Antonio de Morais