Pinhole Camera

This project helped me learn how to use the light sensitive paper and how a camera take a picture. The way a camera takes a picture is by the shutter and the aperture. The shutter is what catches the light to catch the picture and the aperture focus on what is being taking a picture of. The light sensitive paper when exposed to to much light will get darker and when exposed to not enough light then it stays white or stays a lighter color. After we put the paper in the camera right across from the aperture. We attempted to take a photo by setting the pinhole camera on the stool and someone sat on the other stool and we lifted the shutter for a number of seconds and shut the shutter, then we would go into the dark room and started putting them in the chemicals. It went Developer, Stopper, Fixer, Fixer Remover then goes in the fish tank. After we would do the developer for 1 minute, the stopper for 30 second, then the fixer for 3 minutes we would bring them out and figure out if we needed more time or less time to capture the picture and have it come out clear or with the colors white, grey, and black. The we would go in the back in the dark room put it in the fixer remover for 3 minutes and then the fish tank. Then we would grab the light sensitive paper and put it across from the aperture and go back outside and lift the shutter to capture the picture.  To make The camera we had to make it light sensitive so we glued black paper all around the can and to the bottom, then we put black paper in the hole can and on the top and bottom of the cover.  Then we took a nail to the can to make the aperture bigger and took gold paper and a needle and made the smaller aperture and placed it over the bigger on. Put a piece of black electrical tape over the aperture and then we started the project (the black electrical tape is the shutter and the holes are the aperture).

PINHOLE CAMERA WORKSHEET:
1. A cameras obscure is a darkened box with a convex lens or aperture for projecting the image of an screen onto a screen inside.
2. A Pinhole Camera is a camera with a pinhole aperture and no lens.
3. Three things all cameras have in common are a shutter, aperture, and are light tight.
4. The two parts of the camera that allow light to enter in are the shutter and the aperture.
5. You test the pinhole camera for light streaks by putting a light sensitive paper in and go to the light. If it leaks then you would make sure the hole camera is covered in black and that the inside has black paper and the shutter is covered and that the cover has black and if not then you put a piece of electrical tape on the shutter and tin foil on the lid if it needs it.
6. Camera shake is a movement of the camera which becomes noticeable as a blur when using a slow shutter speed.  To prevent camera shake you can use a faster shutter speed/ shorter lens, use a tripod with or without a remote release, and braces ourselves to minimize movement.
7. The Developer starts to bring the image to the paper by bring the colors from the light.
8. In the stopper bath it stops the developing process.
9. In the Fixer the paper no long light sensitive.
10. You agitate the chemicals when printing so that way it gets on the hole paper to bring the picture and so its smooth.
11. You prevent prints from sticking together by going through all the steps and the you lay them in a tray in a single line not touching anyone else's.
12. We wash prints because to get all the chemicals off and there clean and also won't be affected by other chemicals.