Photography Notes

Photography is the process, activity and art of creating still or moving pictures by recording radiation on a sensitive medium, such as photographic film, or an electronic sensor. Light patterns reflected or emitted from objects activate a sensitive chemical or electronic sensor during a timed exposure.

Positive Images From The Pinhole Camera

I used Photoshop to change my negative images to positive. The outdoor ones which were black are now a lot lighter and the indoor one is now darker.

Negative Images Taken From Pinhole Camera

Two of these were done out side so the negatives show up black whereas the other one was taken inside so its white in the negative

Evaluation

The pinhole camera project has been a very interesting and quite challenging project. We started by getting our tins and making them into the pinhole cameras. By doing this, it made me realise how easy and simple it is to make a pinhole camera. Once the pinhole cameras were made we measured the width and multiplied it by the approximate diameter of the pinhole which is 0.8 millimetres to find the exposure time. After this we were shown around the dark room and we were told the process of developing the photographs we take with our cameras. This was easy to learn as the developer, stop and fixer were lined in order. Our pinhole cameras were then loaded with photographic paper while we were in the darkroom so that the paper would not prematurely be exposed. Once we were loaded up our pinhole cameras we headed out to a location we had chosen earlier. After setting up I removed the shutter and let the paper be exposed for the one minute exposure time which I had worked out earlier. Once the exposure was finished I replaced the shutter and headed back to the dark room. Once I was in the dark room I developed the photograph but it came out half black and half white. From this I learnt that the exposure time was too long. After reloading and heading back to the location to take the picture, I got better results. With a shorter exposure time of thirty seconds I had a clear image. My third shot I took had to shoot inside. I chose the library for this as the lighting was good. I exposed for three minutes and returned to the darkroom. The photograph turned out well once developed. To conclude, from this project I have learnt how to create a working pinhole camera and use it as well as how to develop photos. I have also learnt how pinhole cameras hold great significance to more modern technology such as digital cameras, films, games and even aeroplanes.

Blogging

We had to create a blog for the pinhole camera project. To do this we had to set up a Blogger account. First we made a Gmail account which gave us access to Blogger. Then we clicked on “create new blog” and we chose our backgrounds and we started adding in posts. With posts we added pictures to make the blog more interesting.

Pinhole Photography on Flickr

 The pinhole photography group on Flickr is a group on the site in which a variety of pinhole photos are submitted by users. This site is very good to retrieve stock pinhole photographs. These range from black and white and colour, to fine art still life and  nature.

Pinholephotography.org

This site had quite a variety of images, such as slow light photographs which are taken over 6 months producing extraordinary images.

There are also photographs where the photographer had put a pinhole camera in his mouth which creates interesting images.

As well as various black and white and colour pinhole images.

Pinhole.nl

This site offers a large range of stock pinhole images. All of these are categorised into different sections this ranges from portraits of people and animals to meat and landscape views from canyons.

Research

Pinhole cameras are significant to media in many ways.  Without pinhole cameras we would not have digital cameras and computer games amongst others. With pinhole cameras we are able to capture images which have advanced to capturing images quicker and clearer with digital cameras. The simple use of a box and photographic paper has been minimised from a big thing into a smaller one. Making video games is easier by using captured images instead of copying and pasting repeatedly which is thanks to the pinhole camera. Pinhole cameras have had great significance in media; pinhole cameras came film reel which was used in commercial film and then from that film went digital. Pinhole cameras have even been of great use to things like aeroplanes.