new style photogram

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Remember photograms....? ...now with flatbed scanners we have a new world of possibilities......

-- Mark (markphoto@xoommail.com), October 11, 1999

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Nice specimen. Nice scanner. Nice scan. Do you really expect critical commentary?...t

-- tom meyer (twm@mindspring.com), October 11, 1999.

Tom, from you we have come to expect commentary :)- My intentions here were to stimulate some new applications to an old concept. I think most of us (that actually DO photography) remember the fun in laying various objects on the photo-paper...I dont expect "attaboy" for this, Im simply stimulating ideas...(Sorry Tom, - no fight here.....)

-- Mark (markphoto@xoommail.com), October 12, 1999.

Yeah!! with computer technology we can waste time at an even faster rate! whats the point??and if you didn't want a critique then why put it here?

-- mark lindsey (lindseygraves@msn.com), October 12, 1999.

OK, I apologize for attempting to stimulate some "new" ideas.... I had simply hoped to generate discussion about what I thought was a petty cool way of making photo's without a camera. Sorry if it seems like a waste of time.

-- Mark (markphoto@xoommail.com), October 12, 1999.

Mark, Nice pic! My color xerox machine can even add some nice color effets to it...

-- benny stevens (b.stevens@jvc.be), October 12, 1999.


Well this isn't really a discussion forum, and it's not a new concept, but thanks for the reminder! I scanned a medal once, but haven't tried much else. It makes one wonder if f-stops, DOF and exposure are just too much work sometimes :)

I can only get the top inch of the photo to load before my connection times out - Geocities seems quite bad sometimes...

-- Gordon Richardson (gordonr@iafrica.com), October 12, 1999.


Interesting idea, Mark. This appears to be a nice specimen, also; however, the left side appears to be cut off...

-- Scott (bliorg@yahoo.com), October 12, 1999.

Nice idea, we as photographers become complacient at times about the possibilities of seeing in new and exciting ways. It may not be true phogotraphic art, but I can see the possibilites. Photograms are the first thing I teach new students, it excites them to see their first images come up in the developer. The students are tenative at first, but once they see the possibilites their imaginations go wild. Perhaps this is a way to let us let our imaginations go wild.

-- jacque staskon (jacque@cybertrails.com), October 18, 1999.

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