Pinhole Photography Workshop

A beer can, some photographic paper and a reel of masking tape. What do these objects have in common? When combined in the right way they are transformed into a fully working camera. This concept fascinated me, so i decided to attend the pinhole camera workshop that was run on the last two days of term.

There were a few technical difficulties on the first day which meant the photos i developed were very cloudy and distorted, but that lead to some interesting results and made the photos quite atmospheric. The beauty of this process is the not knowing and randomness of it all. If you take a photo with a digital camera you have instant results but with this you have to take it back to the dark room and wait to see as your image slowly reveals itself.

Here are some of the pictures i took on the first day...

On the second day Roger had replaced the dodgy lamp in the dark room with one that worked properly and the photos i took were much clearer as a result. As you can see from the examples below

I found this workshop fascinating, the simplicity of it was refreshing. I didnt need to learn any new software or buy a memory stick or recharge the batterys for 24 hours to get only 2 hours use from them! I had my beer can and my paper and i was ready to go, fantastic! I would like to thank Roger and Danny for putting this on, it was a good end to a great term.