MY PHOTOS

A Picture I Took On My Way Home From Oregon

Photographer I Like

I found this professional photographer on photography.com, his name is Phil de Fabio and he photographs pictures of landscapes, animals, waterfalls, and buildings. The angles he takes the pictures from, the lighting, and especially the colors make me really feel like i'm there! The pictures are basically jumping out of the picture. I really like his photographs. To see some go to: http://phildefabio.com/content/gallery/

CCD's

CCD= Charged-Coupled Device a computer chip that senses light amounts and facilitates the recording of images
Contains a grid of linked capacitors. Each capacitor contains one pixel
Example: A 3.1 mega-pixel camera has 3.1 million capacitors

Light travels through the lens and strikes the CCD. This frees more and more electrons the brighter it gets.
A circuit measures the voltage and reads each row until all are done

With a digital camera the light will pass through the lens and land on the CCD which senses the light and records the info it sends back

A CCD is much more reactive than a film-strip (in a film camera). 70% light accumulated compared to 2%! Video cameras have 40X per second or 3 CCDs in one! The video requires a more accurate resolution.

What I've Learned

This Class, I've learned about a camera's aperture,
how the lens helps the picture turn out,
how lighting changes the pictures quality,
and how long the film is exposed changes everything!
I still have questions about how cameras focus and how a digital camera changes the picture from color to black & white, to sepia, and bright colors.
-Zoe

Comparing our pinhole camera to a digital camera.
Similarities: both have...
shutters
black inside and out


Differences:
Digital has: shutter closes in, no photo paper, focus options, screen, flash, setting options, color options, peep hole, deleting options

Group: Doug, Zoe, Mason

Pinhole Camera Project

The purpose of this project is to see how a camera works by making a home-made model.
By seeing what materials can create a pinhole camera,
I can see how my digital camera works at home!

How A Pinhole Camera Works:
My group (Doug & Mason) all brought materials that, when combined,
made a pinhole camera,
The main structure, or body, of the camera is made out of an cylindrical oatmeal box, the shutter is made from black paper and the hole is made with a pin, hence creating the name: Pinhole camera.
The size of the hole determines the focal lengths and projection. When light is entered into the Light tight box, the image is projected onto the paper. The Light rays from an object pass into the small hole to form an image!

The aperture of the projected image is about 100 times smaller than the original distance and size. The image is flipped vertically and horizontally when developed. The amount of light that gets inside the box and/or pinhole size also determines the quality of the resulting image. The larger the pinhole, the more scattered the light, and the less sharp the resulting image.


Materials:
Quaker Oatmeal box
Elmer's Glue
Krazy Glue
An aluminum can
A pin
Black paper
Tape Measure
A very sharp razor or X-Acto


How To Make and Use Your Camera:
First cut a .5 inch X .5 inch square in the middle of the oatmeal container.
Then cut the top and bottom of the aluminum can off.
Now cut it in half, hot dog style! Next take the flat aluminum and cut out a 2 in.X 3in. rectangle. This should be rounded off at the edges. You can recycle the rest of the can.
Attach it to the oatmeal box's inside, and then glue black paper to the inside of the box so it's tatally dark and then create a sliding flap for the shutter with strips of black paper and tape. Now insert the film strip without exposing it (in a special bag or dark room) with tape, close the shutter and prepare to take pictures!!! When taking pictures make sure your box/base is on a sturdy surface with something heavy (ie: dictionary) on top of it. Make sure the item on top doesn't have it's shadow covering the pinhole after you open the shutter. Then keep the shutter open for the amount of time you'd wish (People say from 10 sec.'s to 10 minutes, so experiment). Then close the shutter, take your film out, and develop!

Mr. Hiller's best result using our camera:








How the Pinhole Camera Works:













My group had a pretty smooth experience with using our Pinhole camera. We found a website that explained how to step by step, with pictures and the author had a good sense of humor making it a little interesting to read. Making the pinhole camera was a little stressful because there's so many steps to it, but in the end it was worth it! After we took our two pictures (one of a car and one of the football field) we had them developed but realized that all that the whole paper was black; and since the colors were inverted, it was actually white. This tells me that we had let too much light in rather than too little. Mr. Hiller pointed out to us how our cap was letting some light in which helped explain the result. The next time, if we have a next time, we try to take another picture we will make sure the camera is light tight by using tin foil wrapped around it!!

Zoe
Doug
Mason
9/10/07
Dig. Photography
Materials:
1. Quaker Oatmeal Box (with Lid)
2. Thick Heavy Paper (preferably Black)
3. Elmer’s Glue
4. Crazy Glue
5. Energy Drink (aluminum)
6. A Pin
7. Black Spray Paint
8. Ruler
9. X-Acto Knife
10. SandPaper
11. Marker

Mason:
Energy Drink Can
Quaker Oats?
Pencil

Zoe:
Quaker Oats
X-Acto Knife
Elmers Glue
Black Paper
Pen

Doug: Electrical Tape
Scissors
Krazy Glue?
Quaker Oats
Tape Measure
Pin
Sandpaper
Black Paper

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Questions

My goal for my digital photography class is basically
to learn about how lighting affects a picture's quality,
what all the settings on my camera mean,
and to share the pictures i've taken in the past!