Pinhole

More of my pinhole photos

Negative image 

contact print, exposed for 8 seconds

contact print, exposed for 16 seconds

 contact print, exposed for 24 seconds

Negative image

contact print, exposed for 8 seconds

contact print, exposed for 16 seconds

 contact print, exposed for 24 seconds

My Pinhole

Pinhole Photography

My pinhole photos

negative image

contact print, exposed for 8 seconds

contact print, exposed for 16 seconds

contact print, exposed for 24 seconds

A pinhole photo is made by using a light tight box/object placing photographic paper inside making a shutter and removing this to expose to the light when you're putting at your subject. Once exposed for how ever long you want place the shutter down and take the box back to the dark room. Once in the dark room remove your paper and put through the developer(1 minute), stop(30 seconds), fix(4 minutes) and rinse(5 minutes) then the dryer. You now have your negative image, to change this to normal positive you can do it in two ways. You could scan the negative in and invert it on photoshop or you could make a contact print. This is where your in the dark room, using a contact board place a sheet of photographic paper on the board (shinny side up) then place your negatives face down on top of the paper. Use an enlarger to expose to light for your given time then just like before put the paper through the developer trays. You will now be left with your positive image.

photogram links

Links to useful photogram websites

Man Ray
Man Ray was a legendary photography, painter, and maker of objects and films, he also played a big part in the surrealist movement.

Photograms 
An in-depth description on the history and all things photogram related. 

This is one of my favourite photograms made by Man Ray.

Photograms

photograms  

photograms are a type of contact print that are made without a camera, taking photography back to its roots by using light to paint pictures. Using 2D and 3D objects will creating different tones to an image, also using opaque objects will block all light semi-transparent to block some or transparent to create different transparencies. 

Process of making a photogram

To make a photogram you use a dark room and use tape to mark out the size of your photo paper. Then you place your objects onto the paper and expose to light (I used an enlarger in the dark room for 9 seconds) for however long you want. After this develop the print by putting the paper in the developer, stop, fix, and rinse, the time you leave it can be up to you however mine was 1 minute developer, 30 seconds stop, 4 minutes fix and 5 minutes rinse then the paper goes through a dryer.

My first photogram.

I scanned the photogram and edited it on photoshop so that some of the shapes are more visible.

I then added some colour by using tools on photoshop.

Another one of my photograms, this set is my favourite.

On photoshop I reversed the image into a positive.

 

 I then added more contrast just to make the colour stand out a bit more.

Another photogram, I think that this one is a little bit too cramped with too much stuff.

I reversed the negative into a positive, with this image I should have left it in the developer longer as you can see a line in the right side that is slightly underexposed.

My blog

In this blog I am going to be sharing my experiences and writing about Photograms, Pinhole photography and 35mm b&w film. I started the level 3 btec diploma in photography this week, new college, new place, new people and new experiences. I've always been interested in photography since I was little and hope that it becomes my future job. I love the dark rooms and 'old' film photography I think that you have to have talent to be able to get a good shot as you can't just look at a screen to see if it's worked. The photo to the right is one I took in the summer 2010 of the bombed out church in Liverpool. This is one of my favourite photos that I've taken. I can't wait to get started on pinhole cameras I think it will be interesting, I like the idea that you can get amazing looking photos just by making a box, putting a small hole in and using photographic paper.