Photograms are photographic images made without a camera, by placing objects onto photographic paper and put it under an enlarger then expose it to light for a few seconds. A darkroom is a room where you develop and produce photos. It is a completely dark room with red light which doesn't effect your images which are light sensitive. To create the images in the dark room u need to get your photographic paper and put it under the enlarger. Once you have put it under the enlarger you put your objects onto the paper the set the enlarger to around 2seconds. After that you place your paper into the 3 darkroom trays developer, stop bath, fix the in water, when you put your photo int the developer you leave it for about 2mins or till it goes dark, then you put it into the stop bath for about 30seconds to 1min. After this you put it into the final tray the fix tray which you leave in for about 4mins. To move it around from tray to tray you have to use print tongs so you don't get chemicals on your hands. Once you have done all that you put it in the sink filled with water to clean off everything.
A test strip give you a good starting point to determine the right exposure. To make a test strip you get some photographic paper and split it into sections(around 5/6). Once you have done that you get something to cover all the sections apart from 1 and put the enlarger on for about 30seconds. When done repeat this for all of the sections moving the thing covering it each time. This creates different exposure stages.
Different photogram processes:
Painting on the developer- to create the effect of a splattered look we created a normal photogram but instead of putting the developer on normally we splattered/ painted it on with a paint brush. After you started to see it develop you put it into the stop and fix as normal. Double exposure- to create the double exposure effect what we had to do it place are objects on the photographic paper as normal then after we exposed it put different objects on top of it and expose it for longer. This created an effect were you could see different objects on top of the others. sandwich print-
Explain each technique and use your own images to illustrate them.
Pinhole Camera
The pin hole camera is based on the camera obscura which is a large room or container which has been blacked out with only a small hole of light. In this task I was required to take photos thought the pin hole camera from a window looking out, outdoors/ the corner of a building, a person standing still and a double exposure portrait. Then with these shots I had to create a sandwich print to get a positive print. To make the pinhole cameras we had to measure out a piece of card creating little strips in it and a circle the size of the can lid. Next using a can opener take off the top of the can, then wrap the card around it. After place the circle on the top with some tape then make a small hole in the front of the can with a pencil. cover the hole with electrical tape so light doesn't get into the can.
Please include the following in the documentation of the pinhole camera task:
An introduction to the task: eg. iIn this task I was required to...
Explain what a pinhole camera is.
Explain how you made your pinhole camera (see the dept website- attached)
Include examples of your pinhole images. You should have a GOOD example of a corner of a building, view from a window and a portrait.
Present each pinhole camera image with it's positive. (either create a sandwich print in the darkroom or use your phone)
Annotate, www and ebi. Consider how light tight you made your image, how difficult / easy did you find creating a clear image that had contrast? Did you have to adapt your technique to achieve a better image? How did you manage the timings? Do you now have a good idea of the exposure times for different lighting conditions?
Documenting the SLR camera:
SLR stands for single-lens reflex camera. This type of camera lets the photographer look though the lens and see exactly what will be captured. The exposure triangle explains the relationship between shutter speed, iOS and aperture. Shutter speed is the length of time you would like your photo to be exposed for. Aperture is the size of the whole at where the light comes though. And IOS tells you about the sensitivity of the camera/ the exposure. For the task we had to go outside a take portraits of someone and keep the shutter speed on 1/125 but you had to change the aperture. We did about 5/6 photos of different apertures. We also took photos of our partners jumping or moving in some sort of way and kept the aperture on f8 and changed the shutter speed this time. To develop all of this we had to put the film in for 6.5mins in the developer, 1min in the stop and 5mins in the fix. But before we did that we had to take our film out of the capsules they were in but in a pitch black room so the film doesn't start to develop.