Photograms

Health and Safety notes

When using mixed toners make sure you wear gloves to avoid the skin from irritating, goggles are meant to be worn, and use in a well-ventilated room. Make sure you rinse prints well between bleaching & developing so the risk of skin being damaged is minimised.  

When mixing toners you need to wear gloves, goggles and respirator. Mix the powders in glove box when possible. A good ventilated room is required here. Make sure that sulfide or selenium toners aren't contaminated with acids as this is dangerous.  

1:1 Printing Step by Step guid 

1.  Set up enlarger ready for printing. Adjust the height of the enlarger head to 

     ensure light covers the printing area. Set all filters to 0 (CMY), set the aperture to 

     f/8 and the timer to 3.0 seconds. 

2.  In the darkroom you need to set your piece of photographic paper down on a surface              under the 

3.  Place your chosen objects on to your photographic paper in any way you like 

4.  Project your source of light onto the photographic paper and expose it to the light for                chose time. (Time of light exposure can be worked out o n a test sheet.)

5.  After you have exposed your photographic paper you can process the print in the                      chemical baths. In the order of: Developer, stop bath, fixer and wash. 

6.  Times to keep photos in chemicals:

      Developer - 2 minutes 

      Stop bath - 30 seconds 

      Fixer - 5 minutes

      Wash - 10 minutes 

Equipment

Enlarger

Chemicals

Objects to make the photogram

Multigrade light sensitive paper