Photograms

Artist Reflection:

     These are my photograms. For this project we did 3 photograms, a magazine, symmetrical, and landscape. The strongest aspect of my photograms is the fact that they feature the different values of light. This is shown in the white, gray, and black. To get these colors I used an enlarger on f11 and, depending on the type of photogram, ran the enlarger (had the light on) for either 4 or 10sec (magazine 10sec, symmetry and landscape 4sec). An aspect of my work that can be improved is in my symmetry. As you can see in the top left, the tissue paper in the middle was too thick to come up gray and instead came up white, so that photogram had no gray on it. If I could redo it, I would design it the same, but take off some layers of tissue paper to make it gray.

     The easiest part of this activity was using the enlarger. When I first saw it, the enlarger looked like a complicated machine that would take ages to get to know and use. After my first photogram though, I knew the machine like the back of my hand. The most difficult/annoying part of this project was running the photograms through the chemicals. I didn't like this because I didn't like standing still shaking a tray for about 10mins, but it wasn't the worst thing in the world.

     

     I demonstrated the objective in this activity by having the 3 values of light shown in my photograms. In the 2 good photograms I had (magazine, middle and landscape, top right) they both featured white, black, and grays. If I could do this again, I would spend more time on the design of the photograms themselves. I would go back and make the landscape and symmetry look more appealing to the eye. That was my project on photograms.