Exercises

Exercise 01:  Pinhole Photography

Pinhole photography is lensless photography. A tiny hole replaces the lens. Light passes through the hole; an image is formed inside the camera.

Pinhole cameras are small or large, improvised or designed with great care. Throughout history, many Pinhole Cameras have been made of sea shells, oatmeal boxes, coke cans or cookie containers, at least one has been made of a discarded refrigerator (that I know of). Cameras have been cast in plaster like a face mask, constructed from beautiful hardwoods, built of metal with bellows and a range of multiple pinholes. Station wagons have been used as pinhole cameras – and rooms in large buildings. Basically as we discussed last class, a pinhole camera is a box, with a tiny hole at one end and film or photographic paper at the other.

Find any kind of box or container that is light-tight, and make a pinhole camera. More instruction will be provided during class.