Man Ray, the painter and photographer once said “To express what I
feel I use the medium best suited to express that idea, which is also always
the most economical one.” He
was best known in the art world for his avant-garde photography and is noted
for his work with photograms, which he called “rayographs” in reference to
himself.
One of my early experiments in photography was making
photograms, which is the placing of objects on photosensitive paper and
exposing them to light. After processing
in the usual print processing chemicals you ended up a negative silhouette on
black background with some gray. It was
something you could spend hours experimenting with. However, today in the digital world of
photography the scanner that comes with your printer and a photo processing
program is all you need to explore this challenging, “No camera needed
photography.”
So, following Man Ray’s advise on using the most
economical medium to image some fall leaves – I chose the scanner. The final images you see here are leaves
combined with some digital created backgrounds with a bit of hue and saturation
manipulation. I placed the leaves face
down on the scanner and covered them with either a black or white sheet of
paper –and then brought them into Photoshop for the final imaging. The backgrounds can be either downloaded free
off various Internet sites or created by shooting different patterns you find
while out on your photo walks.
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