Alternative Photography

 These are the final images of the project. As I have explained previously, the method of choice was photograms and my choice of subjects are glass and hands. 

 This is another darkroom technique that we had the chance to try out during our lecture. Double exposure in the darkroom consists of using 2 film negatives to create 1 image. Once again we used the enlarger, photo sensitive paper and the 3 different chemicals to develop the image which are the developer, the stop and the fix. With the 2 negatives, find the best composition for them to fit together and place them in the enlarger in the desired position. It is important to do some test trips before doing the final images, to annotate the best settings to put the enlarger in to get a great shot. The test strip that we did consists of covering a part of the paper for a short amount of time and exposing. We move the cover slightly more and expose again and we did this 2 more times to figure out how much time the paper needs for the images to develop properly. The test strip can be seen on the left and the the film on the right were used to create the test strip. Once you figure out the...

After the last experimentation the next step was to plan for finals. I like the structure and composition of these photograms but there were some problems with light leaks and chemicals. I will need to try these experimentations again and have the final images improved from here onwards.   As for the photograms themselves, I used glass and my hands, meaning I had someone help me to use the equipment. The settings were the same for all that was tested out last time which would be aperture on f16 and time on 3 seconds which were split to 1.5 and 1.5 seconds. Same as before I would put the glass and expose for 1.5 seconds, leave the glass and add my hand to the desired position and expose for 1.5 seconds again. I wanted a short time like 3 seconds to not get any hand shake, which is what happened when I first used my hands for the photograms.  

I have decided to do my final project using photograms. I liked the turnout of the last experimentation and I got the idea of using glass. After these tests I loved the outcome and the detail that came out using the glass. I have documented the time the paper is exposed for an the aperture used to keep improving. I was leaving them exposed for 3 seconds because I was using my hand and did not want that the images come out too shaky. So I set the aperture to 11 at first but it was too much (Image 4), experimented with 22 which was not enough (Image 6) and decided to work with 16 and it was just what I wanted (Image 3). Once I got the best setting I moved on to experiment in positioning. I did no want the hand to look so harsh (Image 1) and so I experimented with 'double exposure' (Image 2). for this outcome, I put the glass on the paper and exposed it for 1.5 seconds, then I put my hand and exposed it again for 1.5 seconds.  I would like to keep experimenting like image 2 mostly...

The pinhole camera is an age old technique which was used in the very beginning of photography. It consists of a box with absolute no access to light in the box but of a pin small hole on one of the sides and a piece of photo sensitive paper on the other. The hole should stay covered until a scene is chosen to be photographed. When this is found, the hole should be exposed for the image to be imprinted on the paper. The amount of time you should leave it to expose depends on the weather or how well lit it is. It will need trial and error to find the best way to photograph the scene as seen below.  During our lesson we were asked to do a pinhole ourselves. It is very simple, you start wit a box and black it out completely on the inside. you cut a small square where you want your pin to be and then cover it with foil. With a small pin you puncture a whole in the foil. Now the whole in the foil needs to be covered, so we made a sort of cover like a door hat can be opened and closed. T...