Material layering over photographic paper in dark room // Experimental

With chemigrams, you put chemicals and substances on the photographic paper to create effects with images. I decided instead of using chemicals and substances, I was going to use drink stirrers, cling film, printed tissue paper  and a cut open resealable sandwich bag. Each one created a different effect to the previous.

 The image above has had drink stirrers placed diagonally across it, which has ended up in four lines of white, from where no light from the enlarger could get through to the paper. The four lines are quite striking as it obstructs thick lines of the image from being visible within the image.

 The image above has had cling film used on top of the photographic paper to create the effect of the bunched up lines. Cling film seems to work effectively on the images because it adds a new texture to the image.

 The image above has had printed tissue paper placed on top of the photographic paper. I don't think this works that well because parts of the image are blurred and totally out of focus. This is from the tissue paper being much more opaque than the cling film and no where near as bendy and able to stay in it's place.

The image above has had a resealable sandwich bag used along it to create this effect. The sandwich bag works well on top of the paper as a light obstructer in my opinion because you can see where it creases, and because it's a transparent material so the light can go through easily.

Overall the drink stirrers, cling film and resealable sandwich bag all work well as light obstructers between the light of the enlarger and the photographic paper. Whereas the printed tissue paper didn't work as well because the material was much more opaque than the cling film and resealable sandwich bag and no where near as flexible and able to stay in the same position.