Journal #2

Pinhole Phtography

First Attempt

Second Attempt

Third Attempt

 Throughout the pinhole photography experience, Carlie and I ran into a lot of challenges. All of our pictures were shot at the same place, all of the photos we took differed in the amount of time that we left the shutter open for. We took it beside the window on the second floor of the school. On our first attempt, we left the shutter open for two minutes. The result came out as a pitch black picture. On our second attempt, we left it open for just one minute in hopes of producing some kind of image. Again, the photo turned out black. We started to wonder if there was something wrong with our pinhole camera that was causing our photos to turn out like this. We found that there was light leeks coming from our lid. Because it was clear plastic (and painted both sides with black paint), it was easy to scratch off, and also difficult to find where the light was coming in from until you held it against the light. We taped all around our clear lid with black electrical tape before capuring our third image. On this attempt, we only left the shutter open for 25 seconds, and finally produced some kind of an image. However, it's hard to make out what our third picture actually is because of the brown smear we got on it caused by not leaving it in the fix for long enough. Another problem with our third photo is that there is not a lot of contrast and it is very dark. There was still light leaking through somewhere as it did cause a little white dot to appear in the middle of the picture.