Pinhole

The pinhole camera is a camera made by a tin can. The can is being drilled a hole with a driller. Then take a smaller can like an aluminium can and cut a small square and poke a small hole in the middle with a pin. Then place the small square of the aluminium piece over the drilled hole and tape the edges with a black tape to secure it and prevent light from seeping through. This is to prevent the printing sheet being exposed to light due to the sheet being light sensitive.

This is the negative print of the pin hole photo.

  This is the positive print of the pin hole photo.







Before setting up the camera, the process of putting in a printing sheet the environment of the work place needs to be in a dark environment like the dark room to prevent light exposure. To set up the pin hole camera, put a printing sheet in the tin can with the smooth side facing the hole. Trim the access paper until the lid is able to be sealed. Once the tin can is completely sealed with no possibility for the light to seep through, cover the tiny hole of the aluminium can with your hands and exit the dark room or the dark environment.

To take a negative with the pin hole is to remove the hand that was covering the photo and align the hole towards the subject. Do not face the hole towards any direct light source including the sun as this will only turn the negative pitch black. The time of exposure vary that it depends on the lighting and the minutes it takes to expose the negative. Ideal time would be 10 to 15 minutes.

Taking pin hole photo was changing at first due to fact that the light sensitive paper and that I need to think where the brightest light is in order to avoid the pitch black negative. It was difficult but the experience of take the negative is different that not knowing the print is nerve racking. At the same time impressed that the positive print turn out pretty good with the perspective.