Photograms

The latest technique learnt in college. Photograms are essentially photo paper that has been exposed but with objects placed over it to stop some of the light exposing the paper. It works best with translucent objects; feathers, plastic, flowers, lace etc. Anything that allows a certain amount of light through. Anything that is solid word basically leave a completely white area on the paper.

The photograms I produced here where done in the darkroom. The objects were placed on a 8x10 size sheet of glass. The photo paper was place below and exposed to light for three seconds. Settings on the enlarger where, magenta 45, yellow 15 and cyan 0. The first exposure was over exposed and had too much red in the image. I adjusted by stopping down the lens by 3 stops and increased magenta by a further 20.

Not exactly my cup of tea but at least it was fun being in the darkroom for once, normally don't like it in there.