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This tutorial shows how I made my Pinhole cameras for a project at University. They are very simple, but they work well.


How to use the pinhole camera -
:bulletblack: In a darkroom, cut the light sensitive paper to size and slide it (glossy side up) into the frame inside the camera.

:bulletblack: Seal the camera shut, making sure the lid wont open by accident. Any unwanted light will ruin the photograph.

:bulletblack: Go out and find the subject you want to photograph.

:bulletblack: Place the camera on a sturdy, unmoving surface. The exposure time can be quite short, so any movement will blur the photo.

:bulletblack: Peel the electrical tape shutter off and wait for the predetermined exposure time.
(many experiments to find out the optimum exposure time is essential. Different intensities of light will need different exposure times, and photographs taken inside will require a longer exposure time than photographs taken outside)

:bulletblack: Replace the electrical tape shutter, and make sure it is firmly in place. Any extra light afterwards will ruin the photo.

:bulletblack: Go back to the dark room and remove the light sensitive paper from the camera.

:bulletblack: Develop the photo as you would a regular photograph. You should end up with a negative image of what you were photographing.


Photographs featured in this tutorial
:pointr: Pinhole Forest - One : [link]
:pointr: Pinhole Forest - Two : [link]


Photos (c) Me
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~nienie07 Mar 1, 2013  Student Traditional Artist
How did you develop your pictures? :)
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~seasonaldragon1 Apr 12, 2013  Student Traditional Artist
Through a developing machine at my University. I don't know how to develop images manually. I slid them onto a conveyor belt which fed the undeveloped paper through the appropriate chemicals automatically, and simply retrieved the end result.
There is no film required in the process I used, so it was very simple.
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~nienie07 Apr 12, 2013  Student Traditional Artist
Oh okay, thank you :)
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~seasonaldragon1 Apr 13, 2013  Student Traditional Artist
Thanks, sorry that what I said wasn't much help ^^;
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~nienie07 Apr 13, 2013  Student Traditional Artist
It's fine. Just thought you knew how to print them manually ;)
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~seasonaldragon1 Apr 14, 2013  Student Traditional Artist
Ah, I wish I did know how. But I'm just an illustration student. They only teach the photography students the complex things with chemicals :XD:
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~nienie07 Apr 14, 2013  Student Traditional Artist
Ahhh, we had the powdered fixer and developer but we just can't develop the ppictures right XD
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~seasonaldragon1 Apr 15, 2013  Student Traditional Artist
Ah, sounds awfully complicated to me x_____x

If I had to manually develop the photos from my pinhole cameras I may have given up half way through the project - a lot of the photos I took were figuring out the correct exposure time for different light intensities. So I ended up with tons of overexposed and underexposed images.
If you throw in being unable to develop them properly, it would have been impossible to tell if the exposure was wrong, or if it was just me messing up developing them :XD:
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:iconjaydensunn:
I had no idea people actually did this. xD
We just made something similar to this in my Photography class.
We used a cardboard oatmeal can instead and spray painted the inside black instead of having to cover the whole thing with paper. Other than that all the steps are basically the same. c:
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