I am in a digital studio class. In this class we take pictures and learn how to take good one and edit them. In this post i will be teaching you on how to make and use a pin-hole camera. The purpose of this project was to learn how to make a pin-hole camera and use it. A pin-hole camera teaches us what the basic functions of a camera are.

Pin-hole cameras are mostly made out of boxes. The function of a pin-hole camera is you put a piece of photo sensitive paper in your pin-hole camera. then once the paper is in place you will open a flap that will light into the camera. The light hits the paper ad the paper will absorb an image that the light puts on it. The basic components of a pin-hole camera are the hole, the flap and making shore there is no light going into the box except the hole that you put under the flip in the box.
MaterialsA medium size box such as a cracker box
duck tape
photo light sensitive paper
a very small piece of cardboard that will cover the pin-hole
a pin
InstructionsWhat you need to do is first, take that box and duck tape all of the openings were light can get in because if even a little bit of light gets in the box it will ruin the picture.
Next, you need to cut a small slit in the box so that you can put the paper in there.


Make shore you cut the slit somewhere were you have duck tape at the top of the box because then no light will get into the box.
Then, you need to put a pin hole right in the middle of the box. YOU HAVE TO put it right in the middle or the photo will not fit on the paper.
Put the flap on the pin-hole and put a piece of tape on the flap so you can open and close it.

O.k to operate pin-hole camera. you need to go to a dark room to put the paper in the box so it dose not get exposed to light. Then you need to hold the box real still on the subject that you are taking the picture or it will come out blurry. Now once you are ready open and close the flap. keep the flap open any ware from 10 to 30 minuets. Not any longer or any shorter than that or it wont turn out.
Our group did really good on our pin-hole camera. We made it exactly right and it looks really good. Our pictures did not come out right tho and i think its because wile we put the paper in the box the light got to it and messed it all up at the very beginning. The thing i would do different is that i would use a dark room instead of a bag to transfer the paper.