Pin 'ole Photography

Final photograph; Trees within nearby cemetery  

Uni buzz started up again, here is one of the short introductory projects we did during the first class using a 500 ml can.

Piercing a can with a pin, and placing light sensitive photo paper inside, the small amount of light allowed inside the ‘camera’ hits the paper leaving a reversed image, to the left is the one my relentless produced.

It’s a pretty straight forward and easily explained process, how you can make images using pinhole photography, yet an utterly new concept to me. Some of my class mates had experimented with this kinda stuff before, and explained how you can use a variety of other things, such as shoe boxes which wouldn’t leave the kind of curvature I got on the images taken using my can.

Wikipedia pretty much explains how it work

“A pinhole camera is a simple camera without a lens and with a single small aperature — effectively a light-proof box with a small hole in one side. Light from a scene passes through this single point and projects an inverted image on the opposite side of the box.

Pretty rough image, but a cool way of doing things. Theres an opportunity to create in the weirdest places.