View allAll Photos Tagged Photogram
I attended a workshop on salt printing - the first positive-negative printing process invented by Henry Fox Talbot around 1833. The process involves coating your paper with a salt solution (Salt [NaCl], Gelatin, Citric Acid and Potasium Dichromate in this case) and waiting for it to dry. Then you sensitise the paper with silver nitrate.
Exposure is done using a bi-fold split contact print frame, with the whole lot placed in the sun. As the process is a print-out (rather than a develop-out) process you see the image forming before your eyes - stop exposing to UV when the image is looking very cooked. No "Developing" required (washing and fixing only).
No camera here - just some grass hastily ripped from the garden and placed on the paper.
Photogram self-portrait, done by lying under the enlarger, developing it and piecing together the photopaper.
15 minute exposure on 11x14 cyanotype-coated watercolor paper, outlined in charcoal pencil.
I was experimenting with changing the pH of the water I developed the prints in, and this one I bleached in an ammonia-water solution, roughly 1:4 parts; then redeveloped in a 5% acetic acid solution.
I have been spending some time looking at old work recently. This is from my 2010 college workbook. (digital scan)
© All rights reserved.
Please do not use this image without my explicit permission. If you want to use this photo feel free to contact me.
This was my first project to do photograms in my film class. sorry about the carpet in the pics.. developed pictures are coming soon! I am so excited about this class!
This is my very first photogram! I made this yesterday. I didn't even know what a photogram was until recently. For those of you who don't know you use a piece of photo paper in a dark room and you can put whatever you want on the paper. I chose to cut squares out of some old film that had that had been ruined by sunlight and then places shapes in the squares that represented myself. You then expose the paper to light. (I did for 15 seconds.) Then you go through the process of developing the photo. (Developer, stop bath, fixer, wash bath.) And voila! You have a photogram. :)
I wanted the shapes to be lighter but unfortunately the paper I used for the shapes was not thick enough and the light was able to shine through them. The shapes include: an eiffel tower, a music note, an ice cream cone, a heart, and a camera. There was supposed to be a clarinet but I forgot to put it on there evidently. I got an A+ on this though! :D
photogram, taken with an enlarger, random found items
Blogged: samsstuff-samsstuff.blogspot.com/2009/03/some-of-my-favor...
It's black on white because I inverted the photogram, so the shadows are dark and what was dark is light.
"Dry" photogram, using enlarger baseboard. Paper is Slavich Unibrom Single Weight, grade 2 in matt finish. Developer is Fotospeed Lith.
I am on a mission to show my daughter how photography works. I started with a camera obscura, and then went on to making photograms. I am actually quite pleased with the results - can you guess what the items are?
Credit for the images goes to my daughter who was responsible for arranging the items, and helped with lights and development.
no time for more color but thought I will check my LED setup for x-ray film exposure. Seems in my setup on low setting and led on the ceiling it is about 5 seconds to the some details, perhaps a bit shorter but still developing very cold 10 C. Had to bleach and fix to correct a bit since when it looks good under red-light x-ray film has 2 sides so it ended up bit dark. Lots of scratches also even when I was using only gloves to touch. I tried in computer to make a positive but think it looks better in negative. post edit on the computer and added some color.
format 18x24 cm
A photogram of a water bottle, I love taking photograms of interesting objects which aren't the same each time so I picked a water bottle and decided to jazz the background a bit by including the plants from my previous photogram
- Developed myself