For the past two weeks, the Core II class has focused on the Camera Obscura - the module is about image making.
There has been research and strong proof that the Renaissance masters used it as shown in this great video to watch. It is also thought, based upon other evidence, that the ancient Greeks may have used it too.
For this project we had to make a camera and then take pictures with it. I cut out the cardboard and build my camera with a 4x lens 2 weeks ago; a piece of tracing paper was used as the focal plane. When I tested it I found that I could not get any image to focus because the length of the camera box was too short for the size lens I had purchased; it was 4" in diameter. Instead of ordering a smaller 4x lens, I rebuilt the camera with a much, much longer length and after some tests, I was able to trim about 4" off the backend.
The second part was to come up with a concept and take 30+ pictures. My concept was Victorian-esk. I chose this because the Victorians were obsessed with recording death pictures, seances, spiritualism, memento mori, and the like. I have not done research into why this was so but I theorize that's it is related to Queen Victoria's never ending mourning over Prince Albert, grave robbing for profit or to provide bodies to anatomist, and cameras being more prevalent by the upper class. For my pictures I decided to use some of the deer bones I have collected and to go into the woods on the property and take pictures of the bones and/or tree that are slightly out of focus, disorienting, and eerie.
Here are pictures - my camera, the test pictures, and my submissions.
There has been research and strong proof that the Renaissance masters used it as shown in this great video to watch. It is also thought, based upon other evidence, that the ancient Greeks may have used it too.
For this project we had to make a camera and then take pictures with it. I cut out the cardboard and build my camera with a 4x lens 2 weeks ago; a piece of tracing paper was used as the focal plane. When I tested it I found that I could not get any image to focus because the length of the camera box was too short for the size lens I had purchased; it was 4" in diameter. Instead of ordering a smaller 4x lens, I rebuilt the camera with a much, much longer length and after some tests, I was able to trim about 4" off the backend.
The second part was to come up with a concept and take 30+ pictures. My concept was Victorian-esk. I chose this because the Victorians were obsessed with recording death pictures, seances, spiritualism, memento mori, and the like. I have not done research into why this was so but I theorize that's it is related to Queen Victoria's never ending mourning over Prince Albert, grave robbing for profit or to provide bodies to anatomist, and cameras being more prevalent by the upper class. For my pictures I decided to use some of the deer bones I have collected and to go into the woods on the property and take pictures of the bones and/or tree that are slightly out of focus, disorienting, and eerie.
Here are pictures - my camera, the test pictures, and my submissions.
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