Firstly, you must use the pinhole camera to take a negative photo. The pinhole camera is simply a wooden box that contains black paper, with a small shutter on one side. In order to take a photo, you must place a piece of photographic paper opposite to the shutter, then allow the negative image to form on the paper for 1-2 minutes, depending on the light. Next, you use the dark room, and different chemicals; 1- Developer; this develops the negative image. You do this for 2 minutes. 2- Stop; this stops the photo from developing; you use this for 10 seconds. 3- Fix; this fixes the chemicals onto the photographic paper; you do this for 2 minutes. 4- Wash; using water, you wash the chemicals away, you do this for 5 minutes.
This will create the negative imagine, which then needs to be inverted either through photoshop, or through phone settings.
The idea behind this image was 'portraiture' - however balancing the exposure time for the foreground and the background was difficult to balance - for example, the windows in the back ground are well exposed, whereas the bricks are too exposed. Also I was not very exposed in the image, despite being in the foreground - creating a ghostly effect.
Within this image I wanted to create a reflection-like effect. However, I simply just had Faith sit opposite me - capturing both her and the pinhole camera. Using the pinhole camera to capture the pinhole was an interesting concept, although to improve this effect I would move the other pinhole camera closer, as well as using a more interesting background, for example, in the field. The exposure time was also slightly too high, as the sky looks one colour.
The exposure time of this image was for 2 minutes; however for half of this time I was crouched, whereas for the other half I stood. This created a 'ghostly figure' in the image. The border of this image was slightly underexposed, therefore to create an effective image more time would be beneficial. The idea behind this image was 'movement', as the minute movement of just standing up creates a completely different effective, almost as though there is a motion blur. The reversed letters of the image show how the pinhole camera takes an image; by inverting and flipping the image. The background of the image is simply just bricks, as it is a repeating pattern, however the contrast between the different coloured bricks highlights the foreground.
The theme of this image was 'still life' - but the weather at the time was very windy, hence I had to keep hold of it. The exposure time of these images were well timed, as the bricks in the background look well exposed. To improve, I would lay the feather down on a flat surface.