During our first attempt as a group to create a pin hole camera, we had then decided that we would try doing an exterior view again using the pin hole paper to see if using a different tin would help the final image when it was exposed to light. This of which did help to a certain extend as the image was more clear to know where it had been taken. However, from changing the wooden box with black card that we did have at the start moving to a metal tin sprayed black, where we then used a can to cut out and place onto with a small pin hole on it had made such a difference, however though as a group we were all still not happy with the outcome it had produced. This of which we then decided to have another discussion and just base our outcomes on the interior, this then led us to producing many copies where we were very happy with the outcome. By creating them we had noticed that for the interior lighting the pin hole would need to be exposed for longer than 30 seconds to what we were doing, by this we had found that keeping it exposed for 3 minutes made the image much clearer showing a great contrast of black and white which we were aiming for.
Once our group finally understood the process we had produced many exposures that we would use as our final outcome for our postcards, from this we decided that we would all have a group talk about what image we would all use for the postcards to make sure that none of us would have doubles making them all different this then led to us talking together about the exterior of the tin where we had all decided has a group to produce the tin to look like our art building where Faye had asked if she could design, we the talked about how we would form out postcards and how they would stand. Once we had discussed this Faye had then told us that she produce a pin hole camera using her phone where she had taken photos on the way home from university, where they had worked very well and that we were all very pleased how the outcome looked like.
Throughout the process that we had been doing and having out final outcomes, we then decided that we would print out our images to the place onto out postcards giving them a finishing look where we were then able to function them, from this we decided to keep the structure very basic due to giving the images a clear view to look from and so that the structure would also be bold where we linked it to the interior of the building space we worked with. This of which led us to the structure to look like this:
Overall, I believe that our presentation to the group went well due to explaining what we wanted to produce was achieve, but also noticeable that we were basing the main structure of the design on buildings. I also believe as a group we worked very well due to listening to what we all had to say and giving each other tasks to do helped speed the process up and made the next tasks quicker for the others in our group to do, I think that we were always on track and that everyone in our group all knew what we were doing at every moment and weren’t falling behind. From this process I think the one thing that we could improve on if we had a second chance would be to hold the exposures for longer instead of a set time, so that we would have more of an image on the paper.
Rebecca Chick 