Saturday, March 24, 2007

Pinholes part trois

I took picts of the pinhole setup with my camera phone. Here is the cart with the cameras. Each one is a Quaker Oats container taped to an L shaped piece of wood.
Next, you see the developing area with safe lights and chemicals. I had already put away trays.




Here is the drying room with all the student's pictures hanging up. The last day of shooting produced quite a few pictures in the three hours the kids worked. To the right is the paper loading and enlarger station. If we had time, we would have used the enlarger to make positives from the negative prints.



This sideways picture shows a camera close up. The lid was created from a disk of cardboard with a rim taped to it with lightproof tape. A thick foil was punctured with a pin to create the aperture, and the inside of the can was painted black with tempera paint. The L shaped block made it easy to orient pictures vertically or horizontally.

2 comments:

EmilyG said...

This brings back many 3rd grade memories! I still have some old photos taken with my Quaker Oats container - one of our house in Middlebury, VT, and one of our cat, Dora. I think there's another funky one of some metal bleachers at the school, too.

stlbanjo said...

yay! some things stay the same. Quaker Oats containers make good pinhole cameras.