One of the things I enjoy the most about darkroom photography is the experimentation the process seems to promote. We’ve made photograms, traditional negative prints with both 35mm film, and 120 mm film shot with a Holga, and we recently experimented with toning prints. Now I’m excited to be playing with a technique I discovered from Kristine Thompson while attending the Society for Photographic Education South Central conference in Waco, Texas last month. Kristine creates photograms by placing light-sensitive paper on the screen of her laptop and then developing it to reveal the image. It sounds easy but it’s kind of tricky.

I’ve only just begun to get the hang of my own method, but I’m giving a demonstration on how to make laptopograms (a term I discovered after a bit of research) in a few hours and wanted to share the images I’ve created thus far and my handout for the demonstration.

Handout: laptopogram-guide