Pinhole photograph!
WHAT IS PINHOLE PHOTOGRAPHY?
A pinhole camera, also known as camera obscura, or "dark chamber", in the shape of a closed box or chamber. In one of its sides is a small hole which, allows light to enter into the 'dark chamber' which creates an image of the outside space on the opposite side of the box.
A pinhole is a simple camera without a lens and with a single small aperture-which is the small whole that allows you to take a photograph.
Light from a scene passes through this single point and projects an inverted image on the opposite side of the box. The human eye in bright light acts similarly, as do cameras using small apertures.
A pinhole camera, also known as camera obscura, or "dark chamber", in the shape of a closed box or chamber. In one of its sides is a small hole which, allows light to enter into the 'dark chamber' which creates an image of the outside space on the opposite side of the box.
A pinhole is a simple camera without a lens and with a single small aperture-which is the small whole that allows you to take a photograph.
Light from a scene passes through this single point and projects an inverted image on the opposite side of the box. The human eye in bright light acts similarly, as do cameras using small apertures.
History.
Pinhole photography is lensless photography.
A tiny hole replaces the lens. Light passes through the hole; an image is formed in the camera.
Pinhole cameras are small or large, designed with great care.cameras have been made of, many different things and objects have been made of oatmeal boxes, coke cans or cookie containers. Basically a pinhole camera is a box, with a tiny hole at one end and film or photographic paper at the other.
pinhole photography is also about FOCUS-meaning the background of your pinhole photograph.
pinhole is also about the TEXTURE and the 'retro' or even the GRAIN.
the CONTRAST of a pinhole photography is also important.
But when theres too much light in your pinhole photograph your photographic paper gets what is called OVER\EXPOSED however if a deep part of your image is black then it is UNDEREXPOSED.
the majority of pinhole images are black and white which is called APERTURE.
when something is APERTURE it means it is only the two colours of bLACK AND White.
Pinhole photography is lensless photography.
A tiny hole replaces the lens. Light passes through the hole; an image is formed in the camera.
Pinhole cameras are small or large, designed with great care.cameras have been made of, many different things and objects have been made of oatmeal boxes, coke cans or cookie containers. Basically a pinhole camera is a box, with a tiny hole at one end and film or photographic paper at the other.
pinhole photography is also about FOCUS-meaning the background of your pinhole photograph.
pinhole is also about the TEXTURE and the 'retro' or even the GRAIN.
the CONTRAST of a pinhole photography is also important.
But when theres too much light in your pinhole photograph your photographic paper gets what is called OVER\EXPOSED however if a deep part of your image is black then it is UNDEREXPOSED.
the majority of pinhole images are black and white which is called APERTURE.
when something is APERTURE it means it is only the two colours of bLACK AND White.
How Do You Make A Pinhole Camera?What you will need :
-A container
-A knife
-Some tinfoil
-Black Paint
-A Paint brush
-Some duct-tape
-The Three liquids (Developer, Fixer and Cleaner)
1) Firstly, grab yourself a container (preferably a hot chocolate sized one)
2)Black out any area's that could let light deep in (use duct tape) and paint the inside black.
3)Get a responsible adult to cut a small square -about 3 inches?- into one side of your container
4)Cover the whole you just made with some tin-foil and try and stick a needle in the middle of the tin-foil you have just place in.
5)Find yourself a dark room/area/corner/place with no light, and put some photographic paper in the inside. TRY NOT TO BEND THE PAPER!
6)Cover up the hole you made so that light does not get into the container.
7)Take your Pinhole Camera outside and find a interesting area.
8)Leave your Pinhole Camera, in the same position for 4-5 minutes so that it can catch the picture.
9)Cover your Pinhole Camera up again and take it back into your dark room/area/corner/place with no light.
10) Put your photographic paper in the developer, leave it in there until you see the picture starting to show
11) Take it out and put it in the fixing liquid, only for a couple of seconds
12)Finally put in the cleaner for about 5-6 minutes and leave it to dry.
Artist.
Bethany DeForest.
Bethany de Forest (1966) works and lives in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and has been working as an artist and pinhole-photographer for about twenty years now.
During art school (Utrecht and Amsterdam, the Netherlands) Bethany started creating these diorama’s, which she then photographed. Her objective was to show a “realistic” and slight absurdist imaginary world, in which one can supposedly wander around. Creating the illusion that what we see is life-size,
an actual place we can visit.
With an ordinary camera the images remained too distant.
But with the pinhole camera she was able to capture this feeling.
Her inspiration stems from objects she may find or materials that appeal to her. The settings and ideas often come into being during the creation, due to and kind of action-reaction process. The final result frequently turnes out totally different then from the original beginning fase.
The images often have a faraway feel to them. There always seems to be an element of suspense present. A mysterious darkness, seemingly sweet sometimes but coming so close that even butterflies can bite.
-A container
-A knife
-Some tinfoil
-Black Paint
-A Paint brush
-Some duct-tape
-The Three liquids (Developer, Fixer and Cleaner)
1) Firstly, grab yourself a container (preferably a hot chocolate sized one)
2)Black out any area's that could let light deep in (use duct tape) and paint the inside black.
3)Get a responsible adult to cut a small square -about 3 inches?- into one side of your container
4)Cover the whole you just made with some tin-foil and try and stick a needle in the middle of the tin-foil you have just place in.
5)Find yourself a dark room/area/corner/place with no light, and put some photographic paper in the inside. TRY NOT TO BEND THE PAPER!
6)Cover up the hole you made so that light does not get into the container.
7)Take your Pinhole Camera outside and find a interesting area.
8)Leave your Pinhole Camera, in the same position for 4-5 minutes so that it can catch the picture.
9)Cover your Pinhole Camera up again and take it back into your dark room/area/corner/place with no light.
10) Put your photographic paper in the developer, leave it in there until you see the picture starting to show
11) Take it out and put it in the fixing liquid, only for a couple of seconds
12)Finally put in the cleaner for about 5-6 minutes and leave it to dry.
Artist.
Bethany DeForest.
Bethany de Forest (1966) works and lives in Amsterdam, the Netherlands and has been working as an artist and pinhole-photographer for about twenty years now.
During art school (Utrecht and Amsterdam, the Netherlands) Bethany started creating these diorama’s, which she then photographed. Her objective was to show a “realistic” and slight absurdist imaginary world, in which one can supposedly wander around. Creating the illusion that what we see is life-size,
an actual place we can visit.
With an ordinary camera the images remained too distant.
But with the pinhole camera she was able to capture this feeling.
Her inspiration stems from objects she may find or materials that appeal to her. The settings and ideas often come into being during the creation, due to and kind of action-reaction process. The final result frequently turnes out totally different then from the original beginning fase.
The images often have a faraway feel to them. There always seems to be an element of suspense present. A mysterious darkness, seemingly sweet sometimes but coming so close that even butterflies can bite.