Self-Portrait

This is a portrait of myself taken in my car with a racing helmet on. Evidently, I am trying to portray that I like cars and racing!

Photograms Experiment

Doing the photograms was fun! When attempting a photogram, there has to be no lights present, as it will damage the photographic paper. The only lights that don’t affect the paper are the colors red and orange. The first step is to place your objects onto the paper, then, expose light for five seconds using a light source for example a cell phone. The following steps include putting your photogram in chemicals. I put my photo in the first chemical called the “developer” for one minute. Then, I put it into the “stopper” for 30 seconds and finally into the “fixer” for two minutes. The following step is to put the photo into water for five minutes. Lastly, the photo is put into a machine that dries and develops the photogram.

Out of my three attempts, the final photogram was the most successful one. My first photogram came out dark on one half of the photo and light on the other. The cause of this is because I hadn’t exposed the proper amount of light equally throughout the photo. My second attempt had improved. My photogram was somewhat successful as I exposed light onto the photographic paper for three seconds instead of five. My final attempt was the most successful attempt. The quality of my photogram improved as I used different objects. Another factor is that I now had placed a film paper that acted as a tint to my screen, which allows less light to project onto the photographic paper. This photogram turned out to be the most successful one out of all my other attempts.

The picture above is my final photogram!