Howard's Work

 Week 2: This was our first lesson with Howard as we didn't have one on the first week because we were sorting out timetables and everything. But in this lesson, we made a pinhole camera using our classroom window, tin foil, a sheet of paper and a lens sort of thing to make it. There is a picture below that shows the set up.

Also, in the same day we learnt how to make photo-grams, normal ones and negative ones. We did this by getting a sheet of dark room paper, and placing objects on the paper than we thought would make a good pattern. Then we put all this under the machine and set the timer of the machine to 4seconds, so that the light was on for 4 seconds so it could get the shapes of our objects. Then we had to put it in the developer for 2 minutes, then into cold water for 30 seconds, then finally into the fix for 5 minutes. After all this we send the paper down the shoot to the other room into a tub of water to wash it again. Then dried it through the heated machine and it was all done. A photo of my photo-gram is below: 

Task Sheet - Research on Photo-Gram Artist:
Ethan Jantzer

Ethan Jantzer creates his photo-grams by placing different objects onto either large pieces of film or large pieces of photographic paper, then flashes on a light, in a similar way to how we made out photo-grams. However, he sometimes also combines multiple flashes of light, coming from different angles so that he can create unique, and different effects on his photo-grams.

When he creates photo-grams, he likes to make them quite colourful and bright, so he uses colourful liquids such as Gastorade and Windex to help him enhance the colours on them more. He says that just about any object can spark his interest, for example bright and different coloured fish.

(One of his photo grams are shown below)

Task Sheet - Research on Photographer who Uses Camera Obscura:

Abelardo Morell

Abelardo Morell first started using camera obscura by darkening a room by having all lights off and covering all the windows in plastic so that it was completely dark. He then cut a hole that was quite small into one of the pieces of plastic that he covered one of the windows with, which made the view outside of the window project onto the walls in the room. Then finally he would get his camera that would be a large format camera and focus it onto the image that was being projected onto the wall and expose the film to it, to take a photo.

(A photo of the set up he used is shown below)

Week 2:  Today we used  a Sinar 5x4 inch camera. 
(Below is a photo of the setup / the camera)

On the camera we used the settings aperture F8 and ISO 6 to take photos of each other in a kind of Victorian style. When you take the photos they come out negative, so we had to go to the darkroom and use the enlarges to make the the right colour again which was black and white. 

We did this by placing the photo down then putting some darkroom paper on top to print the photo onto. Then we put the enlarger on 8 seconds and pressed run when everything was set up properly. 

We then developed the using the developing chemicals for 2 minutes, then put it in the stop bath for 30 seconds then finally put them in the fix for 5 minutes. We put them through the shoot to the other room then washed the off and dried them.

Below is photos of the image when it was negative and then of the proper print.

                Proper Black and White Print                                            Negative Print

Week 3: This week with Howard we started to look at  the pin hole cameras and how to use them properly and how to get a good print from them.

We had to first get a piece of photographic paper that would fit into the pinhole camera and place it at the back inside the camera (opposite side to the pinhole). Then we had to close the camera and put black tape around anywhere where light could come through, so it didn't ruin the paper.

We went out and open the shutter of the camera for round 3 minutes. (You can do it for longer or shorter depending on the amount of light there is). Then finally, we took everything back to the dark room and got the photographic paper and developed it.

It's not a very clear photo, but this was my result:

And below is a photo of the pin hole camera which we used: