Photograms

kira001a, a photo by lunarose12 on Flickr.

Playing with light and contrast was interesting, but my photos came out dull. I wanted something more exciting. I thought taking old film and twisting it to give a flowing edge would create an interesting photo. The light also captured my finger tips which when i placed the positive and negative next to each other they created the shape of a heart.

How to make a photogram:
Photograms are made by using an enlarger. You take unexposed paper place foreign objects on the sheet and then shine light. The light will create greys and darks depending on what it placed upon the paper. This image creates a negative, from there you will have to make a positive print.

 

This is one of my first photogram negatives. You can tell that the light may have been on to long, the other objects in the background of by blacked out.  I really liked the necklace that I used, there was chaining, harsh but also elegant. I like playing with objects that can represent two different extremes. Unfortunately this extreme did not come out to what I wanted. I had a glass bottle, which I wished reflected light more. At least I knew what I wanted... which was not this.

 I started to play with film. It had a story a character and with the bottle it caused deformity. Now looking back at it, it isn't my favorite, but I am happy that I played with film negatives in my photograms. There also is a ghostly figure to the left side, which is medical glove. I liked how simple objects around the room could make an interesting object.

There were some overhead pictures that I found floating around the art wing. In the end it is not much work, you put it in the enlarger place a couple random objects, shine the light through, and bam you got it. To me it looks like that as well... haha I am so over critical of my work. Nothing is good. I learned that you can have fun with photograms but I like capturing real life. I would mind taking a real life photo and then playing around with that object in the enlarger. That may me my next adventure.