New Pinhole

Well, school has just started. Today is Labor Day and I'm unfortunately missing my photo class due to the holiday. I'm taking Creative Photography at Palomar. We're going to be doing so much cool stuff. Right now we're working on pinholes, hand coloring, and toning.

This is the fourth pinhole camera I've made. It's a Christmas box from the dollar store. The first time I tested it, the whole image came out black so I had to pretty much cover the whole box with black tape.

I wanted to do something different with this camera, though. I remembered Peggy Jones (my photo teacher at MiraCosta) talking about using the whole box as a camera. So I used that idea and made a paper negative template to fit inside the whole box.

It may be hard to tell by the pictures I've posted, but the one on the bottom has a designed sketched into it. I thought the original template I made (on the top) was too boring and simple, so I drew inspiration from all the crosses in my house and made a more elaborate cross on the backside of the template.

But then I thought that the template was too small, so I made a bigger one that I intend to use for the remainder of the photos I am going to take.



I'll be posting scans of the final images once they're done!