Pinhole Photography
What is Pinhole Photography?
Pinhole Photography is taking pictures however, without any lens. Instead of using a plastic or glass lens, a pinhole camera is a box camera, so you would use something like a cardboard, it's a camera with holes instead of lens. A pinhole camera would usually be homemade. The smaller the hole is the sharper the image will be.
A pinhole is a lensless camera with a fine round hole at one end, and a photographic paper or film at the end. As the light passes through the hole, a image is formed in the camera. A pinhole camera could be small or large, the size doesn't really matter. The special camera can be made from cereal boxes, coke cans or a cookie container. Pinhole images would be more softer and less sharper than normal cameras with lens images. Alhazen (Persian Scientist) figured out that the smaller the pinhole the sharper the image.
Pinhole Photography is taking pictures however, without any lens. Instead of using a plastic or glass lens, a pinhole camera is a box camera, so you would use something like a cardboard, it's a camera with holes instead of lens. A pinhole camera would usually be homemade. The smaller the hole is the sharper the image will be.
A pinhole is a lensless camera with a fine round hole at one end, and a photographic paper or film at the end. As the light passes through the hole, a image is formed in the camera. A pinhole camera could be small or large, the size doesn't really matter. The special camera can be made from cereal boxes, coke cans or a cookie container. Pinhole images would be more softer and less sharper than normal cameras with lens images. Alhazen (Persian Scientist) figured out that the smaller the pinhole the sharper the image.
History of Pinhole Photography
This technique is based on using camera obscura, which is many centuries old. The idea of a pinhole camera came out about 1000 years before the very first camera was invented in the early 19th century. Even though, Artistotle had been the first to talk about inverted images through pinholes, back in the 400. Photography had only been invented in 1839, in the 15th century artists such as Leonardo da Vinci has started using the pinhole technique as an aid to make his drawings.
This technique is based on using camera obscura, which is many centuries old. The idea of a pinhole camera came out about 1000 years before the very first camera was invented in the early 19th century. Even though, Artistotle had been the first to talk about inverted images through pinholes, back in the 400. Photography had only been invented in 1839, in the 15th century artists such as Leonardo da Vinci has started using the pinhole technique as an aid to make his drawings.
Steven Pippin
Steven Pippin is an English artist, born in 1960. Pippin said that his seen his father surrounded by wires and tubes of a television set that he was repairing, during his early childhood. This is where Pippin work's shows his strong interest in the mechanical. His early work had been based on converting furniture and everyday objects, and later transforming them into pinhole cameras, which he then uses to take photographs. Before Pippin could even take these photographs, he would have to firstly plan every single thing out. It may sound easy however, it wasn't. Pippin would have to go through many failed attempts to finally making his pictures.
Steven Pippin is an English artist, born in 1960. Pippin said that his seen his father surrounded by wires and tubes of a television set that he was repairing, during his early childhood. This is where Pippin work's shows his strong interest in the mechanical. His early work had been based on converting furniture and everyday objects, and later transforming them into pinhole cameras, which he then uses to take photographs. Before Pippin could even take these photographs, he would have to firstly plan every single thing out. It may sound easy however, it wasn't. Pippin would have to go through many failed attempts to finally making his pictures.
Steven Pippin Work:
Pippin experimented with different sorts of things, one of my favourite work by him is the washing machine one. He experimented with washing machines by transforming them into cameras in 1989, each of the washing machines would take photos at a certain point and time during Pippin's walk. I thought that this idea was very creative and unique, how he took pictures using a washing machine.
Pippin experimented with different sorts of things, one of my favourite work by him is the washing machine one. He experimented with washing machines by transforming them into cameras in 1989, each of the washing machines would take photos at a certain point and time during Pippin's walk. I thought that this idea was very creative and unique, how he took pictures using a washing machine.