Camera Explorations

Camera Explorations

Alyssa S  //  Five things about me:
1. I'm a senior at Holland Christian
2. I like peanut butter with ice cream
3. I read books like most people eat candy.
4. Astronomy fascinates me.
5. I like jazz music.

Jul 1 / 1:45pm

Camera Obscura

This summer, I decided to work on a camera obscura project. This is my first chance to get to work on it because we were gone on vacation (Florida!) and then I had a week where I started my babysitting job. Anyway....so yesterday I was able to go to buy a tarp- 10'x25', 3mm thick. Today I cut it down to the size I needed for the window. I had to triple fold it so it was light proof. First try didn't work- it was in the morning, so the sun came directly through the hole. I tried making the hole bigger and it still didn't work, so I gave up for then. This afternoon I tried again, when the sun was on the opposite side of the house. This worked much better. I actually could see a picture! 

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I chose to use our bathroom- it has only one smaller window and a door that doesn't let in much light. The view is of our backyard- the red object is our umbrella on the deck.  (The first picture is of what the tarp looks like). The pictures turned out in low resolution- it is dark and my computer doesn't handle the kind of pictures my camera take very well. Hopefully I'll find away around this soon. The next step is trying to make the image brighter.

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