Man Ray's Rayograms.

I first learnt of Man Ray at A Level photography, and I must admit I was immediately interested in his work. Unfortunately I'd never been able to experiment with Rayograms as we didn't have a darkroom. But I scanned things instead and just changed them to greyscale images. Worked quite well, but lost the creativity a little.
Man Ray was a Dadaist so was trying to find new ways of creating art and fighting against what was defined as 'art'. Rayograms/rayographs are made without a camera, simply by placing various objects on sensitized paper in a dark room, ex- posing them briefly to a single ray of light.
Today however, I was able to actually use Man Ray's technique as it should be used, in a darkroom. We were told to bring objects of our choice, and so here are what I took:

Glass teddybear ornament.

Birds near a pond(?) ornament.

Bubble wrap.

Chain necklace.

I chose these objects as most on transparent or reflective, so the light would hit them differently. 

First we needed to do an exposure tester to see how it would come out, and then use the exposure we wanted for the whole thing:

5-20 seconds

I decided on 15 seconds as you could see more clearly where the refraction of the light hit the paper.

Final: