Alternate processes

12 years 8 months ago #113795 by icepics
I suppose this doesn't fit under film but it's close - 'lensless' photography, making lumen prints (photograms) with old photo paper. Wondered if anyone else has tried any similar processes.

Eastman Kodak Velox

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12 years 8 months ago #113797 by Dori
How is it done?? I have never heard of this before.

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12 years 8 months ago #113849 by icepics
I learned about it from someone I bought darkroom supplies from. I asked if it was OK to post her blog - yarnzombie.net/craft/?p=323 (I know it doesn't sound like photography but she does knitting and other crafts too). The more I started looking into it the more I keep finding, and there are galleries exhibiting this type of work.

I used old B&W photo paper and placed whatever object(s) on it and exposed it in direct sunlight. It's like the sunprints they do as a craft activity w/kids. You can see the colors you get, different papers give different results. The color's much darker leaving it for awhile, you start to get an image right away but I lke the deeper color letting it sit for anywhere from minutes to an hour or longer. You can put it under glass if you're using a flat object. And you of course can't move anything once you put it on the paper. Some people run them thru some fixer, I haven't yet, and might find they turn brown or get darker.

I can post some resources and if you look on Flickr you'd find some examples.

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12 years 8 months ago #113940 by MLKstudios

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12 years 8 months ago #114006 by icepics
Thanks for the link, been meaning to go look at some Man Ray and Moholy-Nagy.

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12 years 8 months ago #114070 by Dori
Thanks!! These are the coolest!!

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12 years 7 months ago - 12 years 7 months ago #118701 by Henry Peach
I've done lumen prints, photograms, and cyanotypes (like Sunprints, but we coated our own paper).

I did color photograms back in college. I used 16"x20" sheets of color paper, and exposed them under a color enlarger so I could control color and exposure. I went to an Asian market and bought all sorts of crazy things. My favorite was the dried squid. They were flat, red, and semi-transparent. On the color paper they came out cyan. I laid sheets of nori on the paper, and then added the squid. Two squid pretty much filled the paper, and the nori added texture to the areas not covered by the squid. I was having so much fun I made several dozen different prints. Later the RA-4 processor got jammed, and my professor was confused as to why the rollers were covered in slimy seaweed. :whistle:
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12 years 7 months ago #118703 by Dori
:rofl:

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12 years 7 months ago #118707 by butterflygirl921
i miss doing photograms :dry:


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12 years 7 months ago #118735 by icepics
Squid? Are you a Detroit Red Wings fan?? I didn't think those were good for anything but throwing on the ice. :rofl:

I've been using a variety of things but never thought about seafood... mostly I've seen them done w/leaves and plants etc. I've just been using the sun and sitting them on a table in the window, I just have to check for the sun moving off the paper. I've been using three dimensional objects so obviously can't put them under glass. Some I did with old Kodak Velox and Azo that's 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 and expired in '66 - love the depth of color. Some of the old paper looked like it got some water damage probably in somebody's darkroom somewhere, but it has an almost tie dye look. When I scanned them I enlarged them to 8 x10 and liked the 'blown-up' look of smaller items.

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