Pinhole camera Works as a miniature camera obscura

Pinhole camera • Works as a miniature camera obscura. • The simplest form of a camera.

Camera Obscura

In the beginning…there was the camera obscura. • a darkened enclosure in which images of outside objects are projected through a small aperture or lens onto a facing surface. • A. k. a. a box with a hole. • The camera obscura was invented centuries before it became standard practice in 1544.

• Renaissance artists used it in order to figure out perspective during a time when this was incredibly important. (They didn’t have awesome Art 1 teachers to teach them about two point perspective. )

What you would see inside a camera obscura…

The world’s first photograph. In 1826, French scientist Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, took that photograph, titled View from the Window at Le Gras at his family’s country home. Niépce produced his photo— a view of a courtyard and outbuildings seen from the house’s upstairs window—by exposing a bitumen-coated plate in a camera obscura for several hours on his windowsill.

William Henry Fox Talbot, Latticed Window, Photogenic Drawing, 1835 This is the first evidence of using a camera with light-sensitive materials. Uses the negative to positive process with a paper negative.

Camera obscuras around us.

Making a Pinhole Camera

From an oatmeal container!

1. Choose your pinhole camera (any light-tight box). 2. Make sure that no light is getting in. 3. Load your film. 4. Open your shutter and expose your film (based on the time of our classroom test). 5. Carefully close your shutter and take your camera to the darkroom. 6. Remove your film and develop it in the chemicals. 7. When you are finished, you will be left with a black and white negative image.

Pinhole Photography examples

The Gutted House: Scott Speck

Camera Obscura: Pinhole Project http: //www. galerie-merid. com/ Pinhole #21 23. 05. 2005 Dean Beckworth / Melbourne / AUS Pinhole #22 23. 05. 2005 Klaus Erlach / Stuttgart / GER Nordbahnhof If you could only take one picture to embody where you are from what would it be?

Pinhole. Van General Iron Industries version 1 07/20/2002 Chicago , IL Time 10: 15 am - 12: 30 pm Exposure Length 135 mins 1909 North Clifton Ave http: //pinholevan. com/home. cfm

Ok kids, it is now time for you to make your own pinhole camera. Ready. . . Go