Pinhole Photography!

Hey Everyone,

Recently for my cyberarts class we took a trip to a photography studio. We learned about pinhole photography and made our own pinhole cameras. Pinhole photography is pretty much what it sound likes, using a pinhole to take photos. What you do to create a pinhole camera is make or find a light tight container that can open and make a pinhole in the container. The pinhole acts as your apperature (where the light comes in or the lens). You create a shutter (to block the light when your not capturing a photo) by using some sort of light tight material.
On this field trip we made cameras out of tin cans. To make them light tight we spray painted the inside matte black and sealed any area light could come through with black electrical tape. We drilled a hole in the side of the can to be covered with the real pinhole. We made a pinhole in the cut out bottom of a tart tray and aligned the drilled hole and pinhole. From there we taped the tart tray bottom to the can a placed a piece of electrical tape over the pinhole as the shutter. All we had to do is place a piece of photo sensitive paper opposite the pinhole inside the can, go outside and take a picture by letting light in the through the pinhole!

Here are two other Pinhole artists I found to be interesting on the web.
Wanda Scott
Katie Cooke

I had a great time learning to use a dark room and to take pinhole photos. If you ever get an opportunity to use a pinhole camera, USE IT. I feel pinhole photography opens a whole new artistic world to those who use it. Try it out!
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