Photogram #4

A photogram is a picture produced with photographic materials, such as light-sensitive paper, but without a camera. I used my car key, my box of pins, my high school ring, and a thimble.  I chose these objects because they represent me in a way.  I like to go places so that's why I out my car key.  I am in high school and I wear my high school ring every day, so that's why I chose to put that on there.  I chose to put my box of pins on there and a thimble because I enjoy sewing and for the most part I do that everyday.  I liked the final result. I thought it looked pretty cool.  I think it looked better in negative than positive because it made my key look white.

Camera Obscura #2

 A camera obscura is a darkened box with a convex lens or aperture for projecting the image of an external object onto a screen inside. It is important historically in the development of photography.  I made my camera obscura by taping two cups together and poking a hole in it.  Then I painted it.  It didn't look the best but it works. The first time I looked through my camera I seen trees that were upside down.  But it was kinda hard to see through it because it was so dark and the hole was so small.  I think they are kind of interesting because it made the trees appear to be upside down even though I was looking straight at it.

Cliche Verre #3

A cliche verre is a combination of art and photography. In brief, it is a method of either etching, painting or drawing on a transparent surface, such as glass, thin paper or film and printing the resulting image on a light sensitive paper in a photographic darkroom. These pictures are my cliche verre pictures.  In this project we had to find a picture on the internet and place a piece of plastic over it and paint.  We were supposed to have white, black, and gray on our photo.  Mine turned out pretty well I think.  I chose a flower and I painted the different parts of it black, and painted some of it lighter so it would show up lighter(gray).  To make it more creative I monogrammed my initials on it also.  I tried to add some brush strokes to the petals also.  I think I enjoyed doing this one the most because I love to paint and I think it is awesome how this could come out like this from a light and paint on a piece of plastic.  When I first made it, it came out to plain so I added different aspects to it.  Then when I did it again it came out good, and then I made it positive and it also turned out great.

Pinhole Camera (inside) #5

A pin hole camera is a camera with a pinhole aperture and no lens. The pictures that I did with the pinhole camera came out better than I expected.  We got a pinhole camera and placed it somewhere in the classroom.  I placed mine in front of the mirror to see what it would capture.  We left the camera there for an hour or for some of us, until the end of class.  The then took the camera into the dark room and began the process of developing our pictures.  When I took mine in the dark room and began developing it, it began to show up and turned put great.  After I observed how the pictures came out in negative, I began the process of making it positive.  Then, I was amazed at how the picture could turn out so great considering the picture came from the inside of a tin can.  I enjoyed doing this project and it was very interesting and awesome.

Pinhole Camera (outside) #5

A pinhole camera is a camera with a pinhole aperture and no lens. When I made these photographs, we went outside with our pinhole cameras and took photographs.  We had to stand in our pose for a few seconds to make sure we took the picture.  After we did this we went inside and went in the dark room to develop our photos.  When we went in the dark room we opened our cans and took out the photo paper and began the process of developing our photos.  When mine was finished I was very pleased with how it turned out.  First it was a negative photograph like shown in my picture.  Then I went back again and made the picture positive with the other process that we do.  This one turned out well also, it looks like a black and white picture.  I enjoyed doing this because I think it is neat how a can with a hole in it can take my picture and actually work.  I would love to do something like this again.