Photograms
How to make a photogram:
1 Set up the light source so that it covers an area bigger than the paper you are going to use.
2 With the lights out and the safelight on, at a safe distance, arrange your objects on the paper.
3 Make a test strip
4 Switch the enlarger on and expose for the time determined by the test strip. As a guide ten seconds should be long enough with the lens set at f/8.
5 Carefully take the objects off the paper and place the paper in the developer, then stop bath, then fix (see test strip article for times).
6 Wash and dry - success your first photogram! Ideally this should have clean white silhouettes against a rich black background. If you use transparent objects you'll end up with results more like Man Ray's rayograms with areas of grey too.
2 With the lights out and the safelight on, at a safe distance, arrange your objects on the paper.
3 Make a test strip
4 Switch the enlarger on and expose for the time determined by the test strip. As a guide ten seconds should be long enough with the lens set at f/8.
5 Carefully take the objects off the paper and place the paper in the developer, then stop bath, then fix (see test strip article for times).
6 Wash and dry - success your first photogram! Ideally this should have clean white silhouettes against a rich black background. If you use transparent objects you'll end up with results more like Man Ray's rayograms with areas of grey too.