Photogram Project

Photograms:
Top Left: Symmetry
Top Right: Magazine
Bottom Left: Landscape
Bottom Right: Value Scale

The strongest aspect of my work is how I was able to create a black/white value scale in all my photograms. This is especially true for my symmetry photogram, where I feel like the use of plastic objects helped establish a nice medium grey. My magizine photogram is probably the weakest part of my project. There isn't a lot of black, and consist mostly of light greys and white.  There does't seem to to be much presence of a value scale.

There was almost nothing easy about this project. The only thing I can think of is planning out the objects for my symmetry and landscape photograms. The most challenging part about the photograms is how little control you have over your image. You may think your picture will come out nice, but it ends up coming out all black or all grey. This happened mainly during the magazine photogram. I tried out 5 different images, and made 6-7 test strips.

I demonstrated the activity by using different objects, or lack of, to portray a black to white value scale. I used solid objects in my images to have the spot be white. I used plastic and see through objects to create a grey value. My symmetry image best demonstrated my use of plastic object and tissue paper.  To create the black value I left the paper exposed. The best use of this would be in my magazine photogram, where i ripped the magazine in half. This created some negative space that cuts down the middle of the image. If I could do this art activity again, I would probably try to make another magazine photogram. I don't really like the one I am using, but it's good enough. If this was one of my first images, I would probably have tried to make a better one.