Katie Cooke has posted two more amazing roundups of photograms—prints made by placing objects directly on photo paper or film, without a camera or lens—at her Slowlight Blog.
Roundup three: Chemigrams & luminograms, chemistry & light
Roundup four: Photograms: botanics, bugs, and bodies
See first roundup list for more links and resources.
Katie Cooke has posted two amazing roundups of photograms—prints made by placing objects directly on photo paper or film, without a camera or lens—at her Slowlight Blog.
Roundup one: Sunprints, shadowprints and photograms
Roundup two: Luminograms, bodygrams, and photograms
Related resources: photogram.org, Flickr groups Photograms and Photogram
The great thing about making cameras is that they’re really dead simple: box + light detector (film or sensor) + hold for light = camera. When there’s no lens involved, there’s heaps of room for creativity. While many people opt for more traditional materials like wood, metal, foamcore, or modify an existing camera, some people go all out.
Here’s a [doubtless incomplete] roundup of some of the stranger things I’ve seen people make pinhole cameras out of, to date. Note that many of these links have construction instructions!
If you’re looking to build your own, f295 Lensless Photography Discussion Forum is a great resource full of freakishly helpful camera hackers.
Know of anything I missed? Tell us!
Darren of One Stop Under writes:
"Edwin Leong over at CameraHobby.com has done a nice roundup review of several fine art matte inkjet papers from Crane, Legion, and Moab.
"I like the way Edwin has published two sets of results – one titled ‘Technical, Nitpicky and Anal-Retentive Comments’ to keep the pixel peepers happy, and one titled ‘Aesthetic Comments after I Power Slammed the Technician Out of the Way’ for people who just care about how their art actually looks."
Couldn’t have said it better myself (so I didn’t).
Read the roundup at Camera Hobby
Via One Stop Under