|  PINHOLE PHOTOGRAPHY
Pinhole photography allows you to make a photograph with only a sealed light-tight container (like a can or a biscuit tin). To make it into a pinhole camera you make a tiny pinhole in one side (so light can come in) and put any photo-sensitive surface inside it to record the image.
With a pinhole camera you get infinite depth-of-field (i.e. everything from near to far is in focus), and strange perspectives depending on the shape of your camera. It takes a much longer time to take a photo with a pinhole camera than with a conventional camera. Pinhole photos commonly take thirty seconds or even over a minute to expose enough light on the film or paper inside to create a picture. Magical things happen in pinhole photography and our exhibition shows some fabulous images taken by the artist, Derek Drage with the simplest of home made cameras.
You can also step inside a giant pinhole camera to see the view turned upside down as the light enters this dark room through small holes. This shows how pinhole cameras (and all cameras and camera obscuras) work. It also shows how our eyes see the world before our brains convert the images to the right way up.
Also, see how the artist Derek Reay created a camera obscura inside a room by blacking it out by covering the window, then making a small hole in the blackout material to let light in. This hole acts as an aperture and the upside down view of the outside is projected onto the wall opposite. He then places a conventional camera inside the darkened room to record the view, with a very long exposure as there is so little light coming into the room through the aperture.
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