My daughter took a photography class this semester and that cow print box was her camera! I was VERY skeptical about this class when she came home early on and told me they were each going to MAKE their own camera and use it to shoot several different subjects (line, shape, themselves, etc.). I was amazed when she brought the box home along with her negatives and prints. She said it took about a week to get each subject shot, developed, and printed just right. Moving that pulltab with her name on it reveals a tiny pinhole that lets light through to the film inside the dark box. Amazing. Makes me so grateful for digital photography!!!
Now this is fantastic!, what a great learning project for school,! I have 3 teachers in my family, and I will surely suggest this to them as a class project for next year ....OlIvia did a wonderful job on the project, I would have to give this shot a FAV!!!
@tonyjsisti Wow, Tony. Thanks so much! You can tell the teachers in your family to google "pinhole camera" and it will give them instructions on how to make one. Not sure how many schools still have darkrooms, but you'd obviously need one of those as well. I used to develop my own photos and loved it. But I now prefer digital. So much easier!
So she took that with it? Wow. I am going to build a cardboard pinhole camera from a book kit i got at Barnes and Noble....when school lets out. Those things fascinate me. This is an excellent pic she took and YOU took.
@espyetta Thanks so much, MaryBeth. They fascinate me too! And I thought these expensive digital cameras we are all using now were so high tech. Who knew you just had to point a black box at an image and wait just the right amount of time? :-) (my younger brain probably DID know that)
posted May 20th, 2012
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