Rayograms

Today I produced my first rayogram. It is done by placing objects onto a sheet of light sensitive paper and then adjusting the aperature/shutter speed accordingly to develop a photograph. I decided to use a necklace, some lace and some feathers for my photograph. Starting out with a test strip, I placed my objects onto a strip of the light sensitive paper and then exposed parts of it by covering up bits of the photograph as I was exposing so that I could decide on how long the photograph needed to be exposed for overall. This is how the test strip turned out.

Here you can see all the different exposure times. On the very left it starts from 10 seconds and goes all the way up to 80 seconds (I think?) getting darker as it has been exposed for a longer time. I was running out of time by this point and quickly decided I would do a full photo exposing it for about 45 second, (around the middle of the test strip.

 This is how it turned out. As it was exposing I accidentally moved the lace and a few of the feathers moved out of place. You can see this by how it looks asthough there are a few faint feathers and a line of lace in the background. Although this was an accident I quite like how it turned out overall. I had hoped it would have come out a little bit darker than this.

Next time I'll have to remember to leave it to expose for longer as i think the feathers and lace came out better after a longer exposure time. Overall pleased with my first attempts. I like the black and white effect and thought it would fit in quite nicely with the ghostly and eerie vibe of my audio track. Would maybe like to think about using this technique for my animation.