Photograms

Today was my first time in a real darkroom. I had alot of fun creating photograms, using various materials. I found that I got the best results whilst using my snakes shed skin. I will be doing more next week, and I'm really looking forward to it.

Here are three of my favourties from today.

The above image I made using a teaspoon necklace, my VeVa necklace and a pink feather head piece. This piece is very stocky and just straight forward contrast, which is very Man Ray in style. Next week I plan on creating a similar effect using paintbrushes.

This is what's known as an enlarged photogram, and you create this by instead of placing the objects directly on the paper, you put them in a negative hold and this creates a hologram onto the paper.
I really love how much detail and shape came out in this image.

This is another enlarged photogram. A section of curling snake skin. There is so much detail and depth to this image, and I really like the choice of focus I made during the exposure.

Let me know what you think xx