cAmera obscura
What is camera obscura?
Camera obscura is a method in which you take a photo without a camera, the earliest mention of this type of camera was by the chinese philosopher Mo-Ti (5th century BC). He introduced the recorded invention of an inverted picture formed by rays of light passing through a pinhole. The video on the right demonstrates Abelardo Morell creating a camera obscure with a room. |
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The image here shows how the camera obscura takes what you are pointing at it so that you see it upside down. It is really simple and easy to make an mini camera obscure, anyone can do it with these tools.
Equipment:
Equipment:
- A solid cardboard tude
- Grease-proof paper
- Tin foil
- Duck tape
- regular tape
- pin (or something sharp that can make a pinhole)
- Another cardboard tube (but a lot more smaller)
How do I make one?
step 1:Gather all the equipment you will need. step 2:Get the grease proof paper and put it on top on the larger tube.Tape that down with the tape (you might need some help) step 3:Get the smaller tube and duck tape that down also.(you might need help on this too) step 4:Get the tin foil and tape that down as well. step 5:Put a pin sized hole in the tin foil. And your finished and ready to take some upside down photos. Slideshow, it shows my partner and I doing it step by step. Abelardo Morell Abelardo was born in cuba 1948, he is well known in the photography community for creating camera obscura photos in a wide range of different places and around the world. Here some of his photos where he takes images in bedrooms and the wall is an upside down image. In these images he using a camera obscura and inside is a digital single-lens reflex camera on a tripod with long exposure. |
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