1. THE PROBLEM Fabricate something out of Common Household objects that has a different and useful purpose PURPOSE The Purpose of this Assignment is to allow you to apply what you are learning about creativity to the creation of an actual physical artifact. TED 715 STUDY IN HUMAN CREATIVITY Applied Household Activity

2. Pinhole Photography & The Super Camera

3. is lens less photography. A tiny hole replaces the lens. Light passes through the hole; an image is formed in the camera. Pinhole cameras are small or large, improvised or designed with great care. Cameras have been made of sea shells, many have been made of oatmeal boxes, coke cans or cookie containers. Station wagons have been used as pinhole cameras – and rooms in large buildings. Basically a pinhole camera is a box, with a tiny hole at one end and film or photographic paper at the other. Pinhole Photography

4. DIFFERENT KINDS Most pinhole photographers make their cameras themselves. The construction is simple. Commercial cameras in hardwood or metal tend to be expensive – some are very expensive – and they do not produce better images than a homebrew camera. Pinhole cameras may differ with regard to (a) focal length, (b) pinhole diameter, (c) number of pinholes, (d) image format, (e) flat or curved film plane, (f) type of light-sensitive material

6. DIFFERENT WAYS… A pinhole camera may have a flat or curved film or image plane. If the film plane is flat, there will be some light fall-off or vignetting at the corners in a wide-angle or ultra wide-angle pinhole camera. The image may be overexposed at the center and underexposed at the corners. This vignetting, however, may be exploited consciously as an esthetic effect. If one wants to avoid the light fall-off, the film plane should be curved so that the film at any point is roughly at the same distance from the pinhole.

7. Pin Hole Photography Camera Light Tight Tape Paint Foil Container Lens Foil Metal Plastic Metal Image Black & White Still Inverted Dark Room Chemicals DeveloperFixerStop bath Fun Uses Solar Eclipses Motion Pictures Solargraphy

8. Shutter PINHOLE CAMERA Lens Metal Plate Foil Sheet Container Hole Pinhole Shoebox Coffee Can Light Tight! Tape Rubylith Film Container Electrical Tape PaintFoil Most pinhole cameras are made from an ordinary box or container, with a pinhole plate in one end and a simple mechanism for holding the paper or film in the other. Often the film or paper is just taped to the inside of the box. Many pinhole photographers start out with an "oatmeal box camera", a camera made from a cylindrical container in cardboard or metal. IT CAN BE SIMPLE & EASY

9. What I Did Using the premise for the basic pinhole camera I took a Whey Protein container & created a functional pinhole camera and transformed that container into my version of R2D2 (The droid from Star wars). The premise of the “SUPER” Camera is to transform the camera into something else completely while maintaining the functionality of the camera.

10. Materials: empty protein container black spray paint scrap cardboard, or heavy black plastic (like liners from film and photographic paper packages) tape - masking, duct, or electricians scissors or matte knife tin foil needle darkroom or dark closet photographic paper or film; chemicals and equipment to process it (trays, film tank,...) Procedure: Use a cylindrical container such as a coffee or protein container as your “Light Tight Container”. Use the electrical tape supplied to cover the outside of your lid. Follow instructor’s directions. Spray the insides of the can and lid with black paint. Hold the can and the lid up to strong light to check for holes. Patch up any holes, and reinforce any flimsy or loose seams with black tape, cardboard, etc. Drill a ¼” hole midway vertically on the side of your can. Cut a piece of aluminum foil about 4 inches square and tape over the hole drilled in the can. The hole should be centered in the foil. Take a pin and poke a tiny hole in the center of the drilled hole through the aluminum foil.. Hold it up to light to make sure hole goes all the way through. This is your "lens". Use a Piece of rubylith tape, provided by the instructor, to make a “shutter” to cover the lens of your camera. Using the Index paper, masking tape and any other materials create and develop a film holder inside of the can to hold the RC paper in place while taking pictures and transporting the cameras. This is the “Problem Solving” aspect of the procedure. The RC Paper is 4” x 5” and must be held in place opposite of the lens inside the camera. In darkroom under safelight, place a piece of photographic paper in the box, making sure the emulsion (shiny, or stickier) side is facing the pinhole. Make sure the lid is on tight and the shutter is closed before turning on lights. You might want to secure the lid with a piece of masking tape, just in case. Take a picture by setting the camera in a fairly stable position (a rock or beanbag on top might help). Point the pinhole in direction of subject. Lift shutter and leave open to expose paper. Exposure varies from about 30 seconds in bright sunlight to 10 minutes to an hour in heavy overcast settings, for most resin coated variable contrast papers. Other types of film and paper can vary widely, so try some test shots first. When exposure time is up, replace shutter and take the camera to the darkroom. Develop film or paper according to paper manufacturer's instructions. The result, when using photographic paper, is a paper negative, which can then be contact printed to make a positive. Paper negatives can be blown up in a photocopier onto transparencies (clear plastic), or even scanned and the resulting computer file printed onto clear plastic, to make larger contact negatives. How I Did It

11. Why I Did It I have been using and making Pinhole Cameras since College both in and out of my classroom. It has provided my students with a great introduction to B & W Photography and when I got this Assignment for TED 715 I immediately thought that it would also be a great lesson to incorporate creativity into my classroom. The camera I built will be my classroom example and provide students with a reference point for their own ideas. I have already begun teaching the “Super” Camera activity to my students and their ideas have been unbelievable. I am going to document the cameras in the following slides.

12. The Camera

13. Other Camera Ideas

14. MORE PICS

15. Retouched Results