Pinhole photography is the basic concept of taking a picture with light but without a mirror based lens. The process is simple and can be created with nothing but a container and light sensitive paper. In my case I used a square tin with a flip lid, a pin sized hole was created (hence the name pinhole) and any other cracks where light could be let in were sealed off with gaffer tape. Some tape was also put over the hole on the outside of the tin so it could be peeled back when I wanted to take the picture. The light sensitive paper was cut to size and inserted into the box while in the dark room to avoid exposing it to light, then the whole box was taken outside and the hole was left open for 1 to 1 and a half minutes depending on how much sunlight there was.
In total I managed to make 6 photos using the pinhole camera as welll as invert the images.
I felt that the first image I made (right of top row) would have been a great image had It fully developed, to take the image I had set the pinhole camera in the grass as to recreate one of my images I took while looking at viewpoints. I had difficulty taking the 6th picture which was of a set of lockers, as the camera was set up indoors and facing away from the light, so I had to experiment with timings. It took over 2 minutes to get a final image in which you could actually make out the shapes of the lockers. My final two images were produced by inverting my pinhole images, I placed the completed images right side down on to a new sheet of light sensitive paper then exposed it to light, this changed the darks into lights and lights into darks. I felt that this technique worked with the building especially well as the sky became lighter than the building as it is in reality. I messed up on the other set of inverted images as I used my pinhole images that were still wet resulting in the chemical reaction messing up, although I do still like the outcome. |