My elective for the upper school students is the amazing, fantastic, memorizing, magical pinhole photography!!! (I seriously LOVE this!!!)
Pinhole Camera... (For those of you who don't know)
The simplest camera you can use to take a photograph. A pinhole camera is a closed light-tight box with a pinhole on one side. Light enters through the hole and projects an inverted and reversed image on photographic film or paper placed inside the box, opposite the hole.
The simplest camera you can use to take a photograph. A pinhole camera is a closed light-tight box with a pinhole on one side. Light enters through the hole and projects an inverted and reversed image on photographic film or paper placed inside the box, opposite the hole.
As a class, we turned one of our schools classrooms into a camera obscura... basically a room sized, live action camera but it doesn't actually record a photograph... (look it up if you want more info)
Students built cameras from just a sheet of foam core and glue. (Yes, that means the students had to measure, cut, and glue everything together...) (YIKESSSSS)
We took photographs with these camera: the exposure times ranging from 30 seconds to 20 minutes.
No darkroom at school = a takeover of the teacher bathroom, hanging black fabric and duct taping light leaks from cracks in the door. We develop the film in my classroom and I scanned the images at home. We are going to print cyanotypes with the negatives, but we have not gotten there yet!
Look at these photos done with homemade cameras...
awesome! LOVE these pictures jack, they are really spectacular
ReplyDeleteThanks sis! I love the way they look!!!
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