MakingthePinhole
Camera
#1  Gather materials.
READ INSTRUCTIONS THOROUGHLY!!!
#2  Cut a small hole in your oatmeal box.

#3  Clean dust out of the box with a damp cloth.

#4  Spray paint inside of the oatmeal box with matte black paint, now paint inside/outside of the lid.

#5  While drying, cut a square about 3 cm. from aluminum can.

#6  Drill a hole carefully and slowly making a very small hole, sand both sides of the hole, and repeat drilling and sanding approximately four times, and dry with a paper towel.

#7 Attach the aluminun apeture inside the oatmeal box with the epoxy.
Caution: do not touch the pinhole  it will put hand oils in the hole!!!

 Caution: epoxy is a chemical and if it touches the skin, wash immediately!!!
 
 
#8  The shutter guides are 1 inch by7inches of a file folder.

#9  Tape black electrical tape in the guides about 1 inch off of each sides.

#10  Cut a 11/2 by 2 inch piece from the file folder and set it aside.

#11  Now cut  a strip 3/4 by 5 inches long, fold the strip in half and fold out the "legs". Now wrap electrical tape around it.

#12  Glue the 1 1/2 by 2 inch piece to the "legs".

#13  Place the shutter over the cut hole and stick down the guides over the shutter.

 
 

 THE DARK ROOM

#14  Put the film in the pinhole camera and slide the shutter shut.

            TAKING THE PICTURES

#15  You first find your object and place the pinhole toward that object.

#16  Let the camera set, facing that object, for 30 seconds on a cloudy day, make sure the camera does not shake.

#17  After 30 seconds close the shutter and take into the darkroom to be unloaded.

 
 
 
THE DARKROOM
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  Caution:  only have red/orange light.
 

#18  Set the film in the tray(s) with developer in them until a figure is clearly made out.

#19  Then place in the stop bath tray.

#20  So the pictures won't turn yellow put the pictures in the fixer tray.

#21  After that rinse off the chemicals with water.

#22  Instead of making a print we went technical and flipped the photo's from negative over to positive.

#21  After that rinse off the chemicals with water.

#22  Instead of making a print we went technical and flipped the photo's from  negative over to positive using a scanner.

 
 
 
 Pin Hole Camera Materials:
> http://communication.ucsd.edu/Undergrad.Classes/MT102.Sum98/pinhole.html
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> American Photography:
> http://www.pbs.org/ktca/americanphotography/