Photograms finito!

Photograms task complete! 

Today, I finally completed the photogram task yippeeee! As I started my course late I missed out on the opportunity to do photograms in the darkroom with my class so I did them on my lonesome in the darkroom this arvo.
I really enjoyed the whole process having the added benefit of a few days research in advance. Including the below darkroom rules I discovered online.

So first of all I gathered all of my materials needed including: 

3 or 4 chemistry trays: The first tray for the developer solution, the second for the stop bath solution, the third for the fixing solutions and the fourth for the plain water rinsing. 




              Black and white photography paper 











Last but not least, image props/objects which can be any three dimensional or two dimensional objects (i.e. paper cut outs, cutlery, toys, your own fingers/hands/feet, flowers etc


One of the most important things to remember when setting up a photogram is that the ONLY light to have on is the SAFELIGHT. If you have any other light hitting the light sensitive paper it will become prematurely exposed.

• I placed my paper shiny side up underneath my light source ensuring that it was in the correct position by ling up with the guidelines masking tape. I then arranged the composition of my image by placing several chosen objects directly onto the paper.

• Once I was happy with the composition i hit the timer and exposed my images for an average of 9 seconds (some a little longer some less depending on how much exposure i wanted)

• Clearing away the objects I then placed the paper into the developer face down and agitated it a little for two minutes and turning to face up.

• I then removed from the developer and placed and agitated the paper in the stop bath for 30 seconds  ensuring the developer was rinsed.

• The next step was to place the paper in the fixer tray after letting the paper drip for a few seconds. With a little tap ensuring the paper was fully submerged I left the paper for 4 minutes

• After the 4 minutes were up I removed the paper to drip for a few seconds then submerged the paper into the water rinse for 5 minutes

VOILA!!! Your photograms are processed! Remove from the water rinse and dry :)
Tomorrow I will scan and upload my good and not so good photograms and let you be the judge of them -_-