Pinhole Photography
Pinhole photography is the use of light and a creation of a box style object to create a photo. The light enters a small hole on the box, allowing the photographic paper inside to produce an image. I created my own pinhole camera using an old tin and made it light-proof by wrapping it in duct tape, piercing only a minute hole through a shield of aluminium to act as the 'lens' so to speak. I placed some light-sensitive paper into the tin and then covered the 'lens' until I had found an area I thought would make a good photo. I then removed my hand to expose the light-sensitive paper through the small hole and waited for roughly 4 minuets. Then making sure the lens was covered again I went back into the dark room and put the light-sensitive paper through a series of stages in chemicals to develop the photo.
Unfortunately for me, the pinhole camera did not actually work and my example came out like so:
Unfortunately for me, the pinhole camera did not actually work and my example came out like so:
A way to make sure this does not happen again, or search for the mistake in my method, could be to do the task again altering perhaps the type of camera and alter the amount of time the light-sensitive paper is exposed to the light for. However, the way the photo came out is of interest to me, as it is a possibility that the specks of dark that the pinhole camera did pick up were possible areas of high or bright light. If you look closely at the top of the image, you can see a slight formation of something, although of course no where near clear enough to show what the photo was of.