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| Scanograph of an aged leaf, June 2017. (Photo by Daniel Binkard) |
A scanograph is an image made with a scanner. It’s similar to a direct exposure in the old darkroom days, when you put objects on the paper and recorded their silhouettes—it’s particularly interesting with semi-solid objects, like water with motion. This leaf is recorded with the overhead lamp in the scanner that’s used for negatives, so the light source that travels with the scanning element isn’t used. The two light sources have different characters and one may look better than the other. I end up with a lovely silhouette of the old leaf and the fibers that trail from the stem. It is framed thusly because these are the dimensions of the scan area when using the overhead lamp. Works for me.
