Lab1-Camera Obscura

Nowadays we could claim that images are the heart of our culture, our relationship with  a medium as photography has became closer due to the new technologies that allow us to register our life on real time and share it on the internet. This closeness of the image has almost blurred the media itself. When we take a picture with our phone everything happen in a cuple seconds, and the picture that we take  mirror reality in a pretty accurated way. The accuracy of the image with reality,the small amount of time use in taking a picture, and the possibility to share on the internet with our social groups are three varibles that has shape during time our relationship with photography, and thechnology that has develope the medium has been the trigger of the changes in this parameters.

In this framework my question is the following, What happen if we alter two of this parameters (time and accuracy) by using an all technology? Could this change our relationship with photography? and if it is so, does this change going to make us more aware of the medium?

I decided to convay this idea by building a pinhole camera (base on a camera obscura) and I tryed to take picture in the same way that i am use to do it with my phone. In this case I decide to make a visual documentation of some of my classmates at the Snellius Building (Leiden University) working in their onw projects for this course. I have made this choice because in the presentation i wanted to confront the real image tha my classmates have with the pictures that I have take.

Link to the final results: CAMERA OBSCURA

PROCESS

    Building the pinehole camera and the photographic laboratory.

For building the pinhole camera I have used a  thick cardboard box and I make sure the inside of the box is all black. The size of the hole is determined by the distance between the side of the box where I going to make the hole and the opposite side where the image is going to be projected.

    Taking the pictures.

Usualy the time of exposure for a pinhole camera may vary between 5 seconds and hours. In my case, the exposure was in a range from 8 to 25 min depending on the light conditions. For this project I use a photosensible RC paper for B/W that is less sensible to light than the photographic film, that means there is more chance that by using photosensible paper the exposure times are bigger.

The following pictures are the comparation between the positives of the images take with the pinhole camera and the pictures of the same set taking with my phone.