Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Photograms

Left: magazine Top: symmetrical Bottom: landscape Left Strip: magazine Right Strip: value scale


         I think the strongest technical aspect of my work is how I was able to achieve black, white, and grey in all my photograms. Especially in my magazine photogram, due to the magazine paper not being transparent, I was surprised to see black. It took me many tried to get the current colors, so this was the hardest part of the activity.
         In my value scale, there were too many variations of black and not enough variations of grey. I probably could have set the timer on the enlarger to :04 or :03 instead of :05. This would have let the light affect the photo paper less, causing it to be more grey than there currently is. The landscape photogram was the easiest to make because the materials used could be slightly strayed and still look good, unlike those of the symmetrical photogram.
         I demonstrated the objectives of this activity by having a range of values from black to white and everything in between. And if I were to do this art activity again, I would choose a different type of magazine that had thinner paper.