Photograms

To create a successful and interesting photogram in the darkroom, composition and aperture is really important. To make the photogram interesting, your composition needs to be well thought out and planned. The aperture also needs to be at the right setting, because if it is too low of a setting then there will be too much light and the photos will be too dark to see anything. Also, if you stack too many items on top of each other, you won't be able to see anything in the photogram, so making sure that you have an interesting enough photo but also not too complicated is important. I really struggled with getting my aperture to the right setting, so a lot of my photograms came out really dark.

There were a lot of challenges in the darkroom creating photograms for me. The first day of creating photograms went really well for me and I was able to get a photogram that was really clear. The second day in the darkroom was a bit more challenging for some reason, even though I used the same aperture and amplifier. I kept trying to get my photograms to show up, but unfortunately wasn't very successful. I did improve my composition, though, in my opinion, from the first day. I played around with items with different opaqueness, and created lots of different values that ranged from black to white. There was a lot of black, yes, but I feel like if you ignore that part of the photogram they're actually not that bad.