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I have been spending some time looking at old work recently. This is from my 2010 college workbook. (digital scan)
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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
It's black on white because I inverted the photogram, so the shadows are dark and what was dark is light.
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.
"Dry" photogram, using enlarger baseboard. Paper is Slavich Unibrom Single Weight, grade 2 in matt finish. Developer is Fotospeed Lith.
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
We didn't put the paper in the right way... thats why there the pink line... Spagetti, hemp, bubble wrap, some glass rectangle thingie. Color photography is so confusing but I love it!
A photogram Cody and I made together in our Black and White photography class.
Items
My glasses
Cody's Ear ring
Two Pens
and a Pin
To make photograms, you set objects directly on a sheet of photographic paper instead of enlarging negatives. Then just expose and develop it like a normal black & white print.
UV-exposed direct on top of the paper , Lumen photogram, in some variations using Agfa Multigrade 10x15 cm pieces of paper
Exposure very short about 1 minute by tracing the object
The red color is because I wetted the paper and washed with handsoap exposed wet.
Reasoning is that there may be some developer in the paper present already when alkaline and wet it should darken the paper while exposing, and that is the case it is getting to a chocolate brown very quick ie needs very little exposure.
Here are the photograms I did for my Photography class. For the title page, I made a type design in photoshop and printed it on college ruled filler paper. The rest are just random things I had around the house... some film negatives, a windmill, light bulbs & clocks, fake oranges, frogs & butterflies, jewelry, jewelry holders, cassette tapes, and specks. FYI: That's not my hand in one of them... it's actually a hand shaped jewelry holder I got from Claire's. It was a pretty fun project to work on and I really enjoyed being able to experiment in the darkroom.
Hope everyone had a nice & relaxing weekend... back to reality...
Here I have a ‘Photogram’, done by placing an acetate sheet over light sensitive photo paper, and shining light through.
A photogram of a mixture of things really! Did whatever objects I could get hold of which I thought would be interesting! Scarf and sugar for texture. Cutlery and beads for shape!
- Developed myself