Heres a few examples of the workshop we did in the dark rooms. We were asked to bring some objects in to take photos of and I brought one of my crystal glass pots and some beads to the session. She explained to us how the exposure worked and she demonstrated with a glass and some feathers as shown below. She did a test example of the piece to show us how different you can make the photo look by doing longer exposures and covering the rest of the piece to show it and at the end you can see the strips change. Once you have done this you can decide which exposure you would like to use for the whole photo, she also showed us on a plain piece of paper and another paper on top with a square cut out and she moved the square around the paper closer and further away and when the photo came out you could see lots of small and big squares overlapping each other with different exposures and it was a great effect. As you can see with the test it sloly starts to get brighter and you cant see the image in so much detail and this isnt necessary a bad thing because if you wanted a light effect you could use this method.

The first attempt I did at the exposure was this dark piece below as you can see you can hardly see the pot and the beads but this is still quite nice to look at but qhat i want was to be able to see the glass shining and see the detail in the pattern and the beads. So i then set the exposure for longer and brighter so that i could see the detail I wanted and I think it really worked out, I still tested the exposure on it as you can see it starts to get a bit brighter but its not as huge of a difference as the tutors was. So overall I found the workshop really fun and I really enjoyed learning about how it worked. She also showed us other ways of making the photo by putting it in 3 or 4 parts of water then drying it out but she said this would take to long for our animation because of how many frames we should have, so instead we just put it through a machine that processed it in about 2 minutes.

The actual end result didnt quite look like this because I took a photo of it and played around with the colour which I thought would be interesting except you can see the flash on the paper which I didnt want to do. But other than that I'm really happy with the outcome, except I'm not quite sure how I could make my animation with this tecnique it seems it would take a very long time and also the paper for doing this method is quite expensive but I would definitly like to use this method another time. To help me think about whether I could use this method I've found a few videos of peoples rayogram animations.

It's strange because as soon as I looked up rayogram animations this came up and It's also the song I have to use for my animation. I think it's a really good video for what I can do with this and I can see that you can use other methods with it like photoshop and after effects.

  

This next one is a good example of the simple forms and shapes I could use and how you can cut the images up and move them around to give different effects they have also drawn on the rayograms which is a great idea I could use.