What's at the End of the Road

this was taken I was walking home
down my 1/2 a mile driveway

What's at the end of the road?
The world will never know

Katrina Dartnell

Katrina is a local photographer that I have learned a lot from. Katrina has helped me with my photos. I have all so had her take pictures of me for her new cameras and backdrops. Kat, Kecia, Danni(Kats sister) Emma F. and Jenna have also modeled for when she helped out Godmothers Closet for a bridal shoot. She is a graduate of the Art Institute of Seattle, a member of Professional Photographers of Washington, and she has 17 years of experience.

What I know so far

I know that camera's have to be completely black on the inside to work. They also have to have a shutter,film, lens, aperture, and a light tight box. The simplest camera I think is the pinhole camera.

Pinhole Camera's

The purpose of this project was to learn how to build a basic camera without spending a ton of money to get one. We learned you can make a camera out of just about anything like a Pringles can. The purpose of the post it to tell anyone interested in photography and in pinhole cameras can make one with out buying a camera.

A pinhole camera works by letting light through the little hole on one end of the camera when the light hits the photo paper it causes the silver on the paper to stick together and when you develop the paper in chemicals the silver that was exposed to light stays and you get your picture.

Materials needed
camera body like a Pringles can
tons and tons of foil
black spray paint, markers ...
photo paper
tack
tape( if foil won't stay together)

Instructions for making camera
1. Find the materials you need
2. light tight your camera body using the foil and tape
wrap foil around can until you can't see the color of the can
3. poke a hole in the bottom of the Pringles can using the tack
4. cup your hand around the top of the can to see if the only light coming through the can is at the end with the hole in it
5. light tight the lid of your camera using the markers or spray paint
6. place camera in dark room or black bag and place photo paper inside the camera near the lid
(keep camera level so the paper stays up right)


Don't cut camera body even if the directions say to!!!


1 camera body , some light proof material, and a pin sized hole!


Ta-Da its done!!!
(nice pose Kecia!)

Directions for using camera
When you use your pinhole camera make sure you don't have any light leaking into the camera.
Then take the camera and load a piece of photo paper into your camera in a dark room or a black bag. When your done loading the paper put the lid back on and take your camera out of the bag or the dark room and make sure your shutter is closed so no light gets in.
Now go find something to take a picture of. What we just found out is that one minute is not nearly long enough when you open the shutter so you might what to do it for at least 20 min. is what our teacher found out to get a picture you can see.



The picture on the left is what we got with
a 1min. exposure and on the right is a 20 min. exposure

If my group could do this project over knowing what we do now I don't think that cutting the camera body in two pieces would happen again. This time we would also find a better way to light proof the lid other than using sharpie or white board markers.
But other than those couple of thing I think it went well!!!

What I want to learn in Digital Studio

In this class I hope to learn how to take better pictures. I am pretty good at photo shop but hope to learn more. I want to learn which settings to use for different types of pictures like b&w, fast action,... And I hope to learn more in general on cameras. I also want to learn how to take a picture and make it look like a water color painting or another type of mediums.