Photograms are very simple to make if you have a dark room. Apparently Man Ray came up with the idea. I always associate him with the sculpture made up of a steam iron with a nails sticking out. Quite odd, but then he was a surrealist.. Here is a link to some Man Ray Photograms plus other assorted artwork. Seems that Man Ray had a much better name for these, he called them Rayographs.
Photograms are made by placing objects on top of photographic paper and then exposing the paper to light underneath an enlarger. This results in silhouettes of solid objects and ghosting of transparent / transluscent materials. The exposed picture is then developed / stopped and fixed by soaking / washing the photographic paper in three separate trays.
Here are two of my photograms using a "gorillapod", a transparent drinking cup and a five pound note. These were all exposed to between 3 and 5 seconds of light. Forgot to note the f number. Possibly 2.5?
This could be an interesting Rochache test! Could anyone who reads this (if there is anyone?) perhaps leave some comments on what you think you see?
Then by creating a negative version in Picasa (best free photo organiser / simple photo editor EVER!) a positive picture results ...
As I was quite enjoying myself I added a couple of my bolt on lenses and glasses. Fortunately for me I'm not paying for the use of the paper!
Which when inverted ...
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