dave lackey
Veteran
One of those pinhole things that you can get in? Can you do one with your car garage? Or a large cardboard box?
Might be a fun project for the grandkids since I am keeping them over the summer until school starts!
Might be a fun project for the grandkids since I am keeping them over the summer until school starts!
tlitody
Well-known
no but its pretty easy to do. Any room will do. Just black out the window with a few layers of black plastic and cut your aperture to size. I suggest around F128, which if the room is 4 meters across will be 4000/128 = 31.5 mm across. Pick a room with a nice view out the window which gets plenty sun on it and a white wall opposite.
sepiareverb
genius and moron
I used to have one in my classroom before renovations eliminated the nice wall beyond. It is easy, but patience is needed to get the full effect. Hold a thin sheet of paper up near the hole to act as a 'groundglass' and give a nice bright image, I used to do this at the end of the demo.
erik
Established
i've built many, and we still set up this one: CO My flickr stream has images from it as well. I've done them inside and outside, using fridge boxes and bigger. It's a lot of fun. Bedrooms are great, a garage will work too. A bright view outside helps, lots of contrast, but it isn't necessary. It works on rainy days too, just takes your eyes a little longer to adjust. You can have the image project on to a wall, or onto a bed sheet. If the cloth is light enough you can view the image from both sides. Do it, the kids will love it!
Contarama
Well-known
The camera obscura is one of the greatest tools man has ever discovered. Before even mechanical! Before film!!!
Check out this...incredible use of photography...primitive and very powerful!
http://shuttermike.com/photo-news/abelardo-morell%E2%80%99s-camera-obscura-mays-national-geographic/
This is a great link...one of the great masters...maybe he was really a photographer at heart? http://www.essentialvermeer.com/camera_obscura/co_one.html
Check out this...incredible use of photography...primitive and very powerful!
http://shuttermike.com/photo-news/abelardo-morell%E2%80%99s-camera-obscura-mays-national-geographic/
This is a great link...one of the great masters...maybe he was really a photographer at heart?
http://www.essentialvermeer.com/camera_obscura/co_one.html
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wolfpeterson
Established
I remember in one of my university classes we were screening some of our video works and we shut the heavy curtains. One of them was left open just a bit and it created a camera obscura, the image was the size of the opposite wall and it was amazing, especially since our building was across from a park and nice building. We sat and discussed this for at least an hour, how productive art students are
ColSebastianMoran
( IRL Richard Karash )
Visited one, a really good show, in Edinburgh. Well worth it if you are in town. This is set up in a building high on a hill with great views. Lens is up top, reflected down, can be panned and (I think) zoomed. Enough for the touristy comments.
And, of course, there is the Meg Ryan movie "Addicted to Love."
About making one: How about a camera obscura with a lens? That's what we saw in Edinburgh, and the lens helped a lot. What sort of a lens would this be? Obviously a very long focal length.
And, of course, there is the Meg Ryan movie "Addicted to Love."
About making one: How about a camera obscura with a lens? That's what we saw in Edinburgh, and the lens helped a lot. What sort of a lens would this be? Obviously a very long focal length.
Bob Michaels
nobody special
Dave, here is a good camera obscura http://www.legacyphotoproject.com/ that is an aircraft hangar. It was also a real pinhole camera where they made the world's largest photo (31' x 111') They finally found an exhibit venue for the photo at UC Riverside http://www.petapixel.com/2011/07/15/the-worlds-largest-photo-on-display/
Dave: your experience as a planner will make you appreciate the book "Dream Street", most available on line from the photographer's website. http://www.douglasmcculloh.com I consider it one of the best photodocumentary books I own.
Oh, Doug McCulloh is one of the six photographers who made the world's largest photo and also did "Dream Street" and "On the Beach". Doug was one of those people who approached me while I was photographing a series to tell me that he was a photographer and working on a similar series. Having no idea who he was, I brushed him off. But I did go to the opening of his series, a huge exhibit at a major photo gallery with accompanying book. (my exhibit opened at the library) And, he recognized me and very nicely asked how my work turned out.
Dave: your experience as a planner will make you appreciate the book "Dream Street", most available on line from the photographer's website. http://www.douglasmcculloh.com I consider it one of the best photodocumentary books I own.
Oh, Doug McCulloh is one of the six photographers who made the world's largest photo and also did "Dream Street" and "On the Beach". Doug was one of those people who approached me while I was photographing a series to tell me that he was a photographer and working on a similar series. Having no idea who he was, I brushed him off. But I did go to the opening of his series, a huge exhibit at a major photo gallery with accompanying book. (my exhibit opened at the library) And, he recognized me and very nicely asked how my work turned out.
dave lackey
Veteran
Great info there Bob! Thanks for the links... gives me some more research material and I need that.
oftheherd
Veteran
Good links. I have often thought of doing that. Maybe I can get my grandson more interested in photography that way.
Jamie123
Veteran
I once made one in my room. Just blacked out the window with some aluminum foil and voilà.
tlitody
Well-known
Great info there Bob! Thanks for the links... gives me some more research material and I need that.
If you want to get clever you could get some Ilford positive paper and expose it on the wall where its projected. From your Fno and the natural speed of the paper you should be able to work out the exposure time.
Then just devlop it in a tray to impress the kids. Or get them to stand still outside in turn and photograph them with it.