Evaluation

Making pinhole photos was not easy for me. I struggled to get a decent set of photo’s and struggled to make the pinhole camera and I thought it was a disaster.

The first step was making a pinhole camera which I had made before but it was easy because we just had a paper cube and put a hole in it. This was more advanced than that, we had to make our own one from scratch using a light tight closed container, such as a Pringles jar or a shoe box. Although I thought I had chosen a clever way of making a pin whole camera using two things which were a fizzy drinks can and a Costa cup, because I wanted to be different. Although being different does have it’s weaknesses, so I ended up making a right mess of it. There for this meant I had to start all over again and also meant I didn’t have much time to do it.

I chose what should of done in the first and kept it simple by getting a Pringles jar. I ran out of time at college so I had to do this at home which was a problem because the paint I was using at home to paint the Pringles jar on the inside was quite thin, so it didn’t like sticking to the metal or plastic. The paint that we used at college was quite thick which meant it would stick to the metal and plastic and was easy to use. My paint on the other hand was a nightmare. What I had to do to solve this problem, was a lot of painting and being patient. I had to paint, wait, paint and wait again until the paint was a thick enough layer.

The other problem I had was because I had to make my camera in such a rush I couldn’t get decent enough pictures. The pictures from my camera turned out to be a mess. They came out either all black or all white apart from one which was hard to make out what way up is was meant to be. It was a shot of the atrium and it was the only one which was worth using. What I was doing wrong was leaving the pictures over exposed, which meant I left camera out in the light for to long. Some were under exposed which meant I didn’t leave it out for long enough. What I could of done to improve this was to leave it out not as long when over exposed and longer when under exposed which I was trying to do on the day but was really difficult.

What I’ve learnt from this is when doing something you’ve not had much experience in, is to keep it simple and be more organised. However, seen as though I failed to do these two things I ended up making a complete mess of it and didn’t go to well, so overall it was I rubbish.