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Photograms 2

This is my second experimentation on photograms as I am thinking of focusing on this technique for my final work. I quite like the style and effect it creates and it is something I have never done any experimentation similar to this. This time I used two transparent objects which are a plastic bag and an oval glass souvenir. This was the first time I was using transparent objects which means it needed a little bit more experimenting. For the final result I have which is the right image I used the aperture to its smallest which was f18 and gave it light for 10 seconds. For the first two I was not sure how to do the aperture and time but it was later explained by my lecturer and I fixed the setting to improve the images. I will continue to experiment with these objects and try to create based around that.


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