Photograms

Photo-grams are brilliant because there are virtually endless opportunity's and experiments that you can try. you can do anything from a picture of your hand to a print of a 35mm camera film. in order to create a photo-gram you get a piece of photographic paper and any objects that you wish to experiment with.  the first thing we learnt to do was how to create a photogram. to do this you have to take a slip of photographic paper. you should only ever get the photographic paper out of its box and packet when you are in either a dark room or the pitch black. this is because the photographic paper is very light sensitive and any light exposure it has will neutralise the slip of paper. then you place the paper under the enlarger, then place the items of your choice onto then sheet of photographic paper before exposing the slip of photographic paper for a previously selected amount of time e.g. 15 seconds. after doing this you put the paper through the chemical developing process. you must use the developing chemical first, then the stop chemical followed by the fixer chemical. there are a few different ways of using the developing chemical, such as submerging the paper completely in the chemical, you can also use a paint brush to select where you want the paper to develop, you can also use a spray bottle to create a more random pattern of development. if you chose to place the chemical fully in the developing chemical, you leave it in there for 2 minutes before placing it in the stop chemical for 10 seconds, and then in the fixer chemical for 1 minute. after this process, you should either place the slip of photographic paper in a specially designed dryer, or hang it up to dry preferably overnight.