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Tried my hand at photograms. These are made by exposing photographic paper (with objects laid on it) to sunlight. The result is then scanned to preserve it.
Shown here is another expired paper photogram. I explained the process for creating these in my entry “Photogram 19.”
Photogram of a glass jar.
Ilford Multigrade RC Glossy.
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Our first assignment for photography class was to make a gray scale and 5 photograms. I hated doing the gray scale, I wasted close to 10 pieces of very expensive photo paper making mine and still it turned out crooked. Ugh. I liked doing the photograms though. This one and the star ones are my favorities.
Ps. The printed pictures are much better than the scans.
Assignment for my film photography class. This is both the negative and positive of the image I created. The positive (right) makes a mirror image of the negative (left). My inspiration mostly came from Man Ray, who used film strips in some of his photograms. Each print is 8"x10".
UV-light 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
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Dried Lily Leaf: made with light, paper, glass, leaf in darkroom - no negative, no enlargement. (leaf size exceeds my 8x10 paper but that didn't stop me....)
I had a piece of photo paper left from something else I was doing, so just left it on the windowsill with some objects to see what happened. Took a fair few hours as it was a bit cloudy..
Another from this weekends project. This one is as easy as they come, I cut a thin slice of orange and put it on the page. I know what your saying, "that's not an orange, it's a red". Well since I am using B&W photo paper and there is no camera, realistic portrayal of said orange wasn't the important thing to me. I was more interested in how the acidic juices would react with the paper. This is by far one of the sharpest and richly detailed photograms I've made. In post I just boosted the original colors and made the dull grey-ish background white to give it that nice clean look. The next time I use a piece of fruit or veg I might make a traced stencil of the slice I'm using so that the page surrounding the subject stays white. Only thought of that trick after making this one.
ILFORD Multigrade RC Satin B&W Photo Paper_2 hours exposure outdoors in sunlight
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I developed the lumen photograms in dilute developer, or fixed direc, or first bleached before processing, then developing in dilute paper developer and then fixing. They now should be real to light. When first bleaching it goes more to gray black, when first developing it keeps the brown color from the exposure.
After exposure, first bleached in C41 bleach then redeveloped in dilute paper developer in light by inspection pulled washed and fixed. This gives a more grey final image.