Onto my second rotation of field, I was now on the maker side where I was set the task in our new groups to produce a pin hole camera as shown below:
Where we would have to design the outside of the box but also using the images we have created with pin hole paper to produce post card of them which had to be functional. From this our lecture Pip had split us into groups where mine was made up from all courses such as ADT (Aron and Paul), Maker (Sam), Ceramist (Faye) and Interior (Cristina and myself). Once split into our groups we had set off to think of ideas of what we could do for our final model this of which ranged from having a double exposure to have a night theme which we then all decided as a group to base it on the exterior and interior of buildings.
Before going into the dark room, we all went down to have a talk with Mal who works with photography, this of which he had given us strict rules than when stepping foot into the dark room that we would not be allowed to use out phones or anything that has a white light. By this it was because the pin hole paper that we would be using was very sensitive to white light making that it would be exposed straight away making no image at all or the image to be foggy. However, an orange light would not affect the paper. Mal then talked to us about once we had captured the image we would then put the image into three different trays for 30secs to help develop and set the image and let it run in cold water for 2 minutes and the left to dry on the rack.
Once we had our talk with Mal and our ideas were set we had all decided that instead of designing the outside of the box first which most groups were doing that we would go straight into the dark room due to the fact that it would shortly become very crowed when every group would come in, this allowed us to have practise runs of the process so that we were able to get use to how it all worked but letting each and every one of us in the group to do one too. Luckily from the practise runs we noticed that the images weren’t developing to well as we thought, this then led us to all sit down and talk about how to change what we were doing wrong where Sam went and got us another tin, once this had happened Aron and Sam went to the spray room to paint it all black due to the fact that the silver tone of the tin would reflective on to the paper making it exposed straight away and not work. Whilst myself and the others in my group talked about the postcards and made sure we all knew what we would be doing.
Rebecca Chick 