Process

Process

     We began our pinhole photography by first making the camera, we did this by getting a light tight container and painting the inside of the container black, we did this because black is the only colour that absorbs light therefore stopping it from reflecting and bouncing around. We then cut out a hole and replaced this missing section of container with tin foil, this was our lens, the outside of this had to be covered in gaffer tape to again make it light tight, also with the gaffer tape we created a lens cover to stop the light from hitting the lens when we were not getting a shot, the last thing we did in the process of making the camera was to put the pinhole in the lens, this was roughly 0.8mm.

      Our next task was to capture and develop our pinhole photography, we did this by loading our cameras with photographic paper on the opposite side of our pinhole then going to the destination of our shot and removing the lens cover for the required time, we work this out measuring the distance between our lens and the opposite side of our camera in mm then dividing it by 0.8mm (our pinhole size) mine was 78mm divided by 0.8mm= 97.5 this is also known as the f-stop, this meant the exposure to light outdoors was 30 seconds and indoor was 4 minutes, however this wasn’t always the correct time so we had to adjust if needed. After we shot our photos we took them to the dark room to be developed, we did this by placing our photo paper in different chemicals; first we placed it in developer for approximately 1 minute then stopper for roughly 10 seconds then fixer for another few minutes before finally putting it in water to rinse it then drying it.

     Once we had our pictures we needed to create a blog and place our pictures onto the blog, I did this by creating a Gmail account then creating my blog on blogger.com using my Gmail account. Before we put our pictures onto our blogs we needed to turn our negative photos into positive photos, we achieved this by scanning our photos onto Photoshop and importing and inverting our negatives then placing them on our blogs and reviewing and evaluating them.