Journal #2 Pinhole Photos



 This is the very first try of Lily and My's pinhole camera picture. As you can see we went and took a picture of the grave yard. This picture was slightly over exposed before we edited it. You can tell that it was slightly over exposed because half of the photo got cut off because we let a little more light in then we were supposed to. We used the direct sunlight (hazy) on the chart because it was a sunny day but we were slightly in the shade, therefore we held the lens open for 30 seconds.. There was also cross contamination because some of the chemicals touched. In order for this photo to come out the way it was supposed to we should have left the lens open for less than 30 seconds. If we were to retake this photo I think that 15-30 seconds would have been the appropriate time to close the lens, then are picture would have turned out perfectly. Also I think we should have been more careful and aware for when we were developing our photo because of the cross contamination issue.

 The second photo that was took was of the hallway in the school, which didn't turn out as well as we hoped it would because this photo was very under-exposed. You can easily tell that it is under-exposed because most of the picture is plain black except for the areas that direct light was coming in. The only areas where light was let in the camera was the lights on the ceiling and also the light coming in from the doors (that was where the sunlight was coming in). We kept the lens open for 30 seconds, but apparently that wasn't enough time. I understand where we went wrong because we used the direct sunlight(hazy) which was 30 seconds but we shouldn't have used that. We thought it would be direct sunlight. Due to our misunderstanding our picture did not turn out. If we had a chance to retake this photo we would keep the lens open for 7-8 minutes due to the bright interior light because our camera was pointed directly at the bright florescent lights.