Long exposure water

Long exposure – water!

Digital image sensors or films need to receive just the right amount of light the photographer intended to record an image. If insufficient light reaches them, they record nothing or a dark, partial image. Similarly, too much exposure results in a bleached, washed-out image or just a white one. Giving the correct exposure means capturing the…

Man ray photogram

How photograms work

Photograms are made through a simple cameraless process that dates back to the earliest photographic experiments. Pioneering 19-century photographer W.H. Fox Talbots developed this technique for his “shadowgrams”, but it was Man Ray who popularized it, …