Photography in a box

Some ideas of how it works

Photography• Photography is a word derived from the

Greek • PHOTO = light • GRAPHEIN = to draw• It is a method of recording images by the

action of light

Camera obscura• It was the first form

of photography.• It is a dark box or

room with a little hole where light comes in.

• Images are projected upside-down and right to left.

A camera obscura in a cardboard box.

A camera obscura in a dark room

In the old times people used camera obscuras for drawing or just for viewing, not for taking photos

Pinhole photography

Pinhole camera Càmera Estenopèica

• PIN

• HOLE

• The word estenopeica also comes from the Greek

• STENO = narrow, small• OPE = hole

What can we make a pinhole camera of?

Cardboard box Can

• A pinhole camera is completely dark except the hole.• The hole needs to be really small.• We stick photographic paper opposite the hole,

inside the camera• This paper is light sensitive, so we need to put it in

the darkroom.

CLIL Art & Crafts at CEIP Can Raspalls2015/2016