okay so this isn't technically a photograph, well it's actually a photograph of something that isn't a photograph, uh...yeah. This is a photo of a "photogram" that I did in my photography class. Basically you go into a dark room and take out a piece of photographic light sensitive paper, arrange your objects and expose the paper using a flashlight covered with some tape (to diffuse the light) for a few seconds, and then you develop it the same way you would a film photograph. It's very similar to a photograph but more similar to an x-ray radiograph. The more light permeable the object is, the darker the area, the more opaque the object/objects left on for a longer amount of time will show up whiter. The reason why the crab/nut cracker is grey instead of white was because I exposed the whole paper for 8 seconds then took off only the nut cracker and exposed the paper for another 2 seconds because I wanted the butterfly to be the lightest object in the paper. btw if you wanna bag on me for it tecnically not being a photograph, there is actually some lint I left on for those people...that way I can just say it is actually a photo of lint but the main focus is on the background :P
Nope, didn't expect to see something like this here!
That said, thanks for the full explanation of how you 'shot' this - am sure you'll have great fun experimenting with this method and thinking flowers would work really well :)
You remind me that the camera is many things to many people. One invaluable use is as a visual notebook. The notes in that book are often of great use over the years.
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