Assignment 2: Photos

Self-Portrait:

On the left is the scanned negative, and on the right is the positive with some touch-ups.

Shot with a pinhole camera made from a gift box, with an aperture the size of a pushpin shaft in a piece of aluminum can.

• exposure time was seconds
• photo paper was 2.5cm away from pinhole

Assignment 2: Cameras

 Camera 1:

        

    

    For camera 1, I used a small gift box (12cm x 5cm x 2cm) from the dollar store. I spray-painted the inside matte black to minimize reflections, and put the pinhole in the centre of the lid. Originally, I had the pinhole straight through box. Since the photo paper was so close to the pinhole, my images were quite small, so I made the hole bigger which greatly reduced the image sharpness. Then I just replaced the hole with a piece of aluminum can with a pinpoint through that, so I settled for the smaller images. Additionally, since the photo paper was so close to the aperture, I had to keep the exposure time very low (less than 5 seconds) in proper lighting.