Tayler Poist
Period 4

Photograms

Making a photogram is very easy to do. To start off, you must make samples of the kind of photograms you are going to create. In this case, I made a landscape photogram, a symmetrical photogram, and an abstract photogram. The most important factor in making photograms is to make sure you use items that will create white, grey, and black. Overlapping is also a great way to get the best results possible. In the dark room, you take in the pictures you have created with all the supplies and recreate that image on the photo sensitive paper. Before you do anything further, you need to work with the enlarger. Start off by turning on the regular light and make sure you adjust the enlarger to get a clean crisp edge and set it to F8 to get the perfect amount of light. Then, turn the light off and place your image underneath the enlarger. You are first creating a test strip with light intervals of 2. You use a piece of cardboard and slide it over to the end of the strip giving each section different amount of light. This will determine the amount of time needed to get the perfect image on the big paper. Once you determined a time, you set the enlarger for that amount of time and shine the light on the entire image. Then it goes through the chemicals (the developer, the stop bath, the fixer, and the fixer remover.) If you see all three colors white, grey, and black, then you know that your image came out the way it was supposed to!