Make Up Assignment( for Drama Skits)

This semester in Mr. Omorean's block 3 Photography 11 class the students were assigned a project of making their own pinhole cameras. the students had to find and bring their own box or object into class and convert it into a pin hole camera or camera obscura.

To convert their boxes or objects into pin hole cameras the students had to blacken the inside of the objects by means of paint or back paper and tape or seal off all cracks, folds and openings. By doing this you create your 'darkened room or area' of the camera obscura. Next the students went through many test strips to see if their cameras were 'light tight' meaning no light was able to come in. After the tests were proven sucessful the students then cut a small square in their objects and tape tin foil to cover the square. next the students poked a small hole in the tin foil with a pin to create their lens. after the lens had been made their pinhole cameras were now complete. In this photo the studedents are doing the above steps to make their cameras.



Next the students had to go out side to capture the photos because U.V. light is needed, instead of inside light. In this picture a student, Alyssa Theodore, is placing her and her friends cell phones on the picnic table in preperation of capturing this photo with her home made camera. She made her camera out of a tin storage container, and the lens is on the top of the tin. After her photo is set up the way she wishes she places her camera on the table with the lens facing the phones and takes the protective peice of paper off the lens, letting the photo along with light in her camera and allowing the photo to inprint onto the photopaper within the camera.
After about 2 minutes her photo paper has had enough exposure and the hole is coverd again and taken to the dark room, to be developed.






After the students have left their cameras in the U.V. light for the correct exposure time they take their cameras into the dark room where they begin developing their own photos. The students remove their photo paper from the cameras and begin the process by sticking it in the developer for 60 seconds. Next the students place it in the stop water for 30 seconds, then place it in the fix for 2 minutes and finally then put it in the wash bin for 5 minutes to finish the developling. All students are taught how to develop their own photos in this class and after a few times become experts. In this photo a student is preparing the developing solutions before actually developiong her photo.






Finally, the photo is finished, and ready to be displayed. In this last photo there is a finshed pin hole camera, made by Mr. Omorean, and a fully developed picture taken by his pinhole camera. All the students were amazed and very proud of the fact that they were all able to make, capture and develop pictures from their home made cameras.