My Pinhole Camera Project

Before we set to work on making our pinhole cameras we had to learn all about what we are dealing with and how it all works. The first thing we looked at was photography in general, we learnt that photography is not only a process but it is also an activity and an art of creating still images or moving pictures by recording radiation on a sensitive medium, such as a photographic film. This is similar to what we used inside our handmade pinhole cameras.

After this we set to work on producing a successfully working pinhole camera. We each had to bring in a light tight box mine was a large shoe box (33cm by 22cm). Firstly we had to paint the entire inside black this is so the light will not by bouncing around on the inside and causing the final image to not come out properly. What I then went on to do was to make 2 triangles which were to fit nicely into the corners of my box this was to hopefully cause the image to curve slightly on the sides. Once they were fitted I set to work on making the pinholes, as my shoe box was so big I decided to put three holes in the front to get a odd looking image which I managed to produce. Then I was done and all I needed to do was load up the photography paper in the dark room and get to a great location.

As the box was long this meant that my exposure time had to be 40 minutes inside and 4 minutes outside. When the pictures were taken we took them to the black room and went under the smelly procedure of developing them. I only really got one successful one from my camera so I used another one to get a couple good ones.