Arts and Crafts
Adult Courses
New for 2010
CS:
35/36
Pinhole Photography - Traditional to Digital
The use of a ‘pinhole' or small aperture to manipulate light and create an image is one of the earliest forms of photographic practice. Pinhole devices can be made from a huge variety of things; from a matchbox to a whole room! The course will show you how to build and use an assortment of traditional pinhole cameras and will also enable you to easily convert your digital SLR into a pinhole device. You will also use a traditional chemical darkroom as well as computers to print your images.
The use of a ‘pinhole' or small aperture to manipulate light and create an image is one of the earliest forms of photographic practice. Pinhole devices can be made from a huge variety of things; from a matchbox to a whole room!
The course will show you how to build and use an assortment of traditional pinhole cameras and will also enable you to easily convert your digital SLR into a pinhole device. You will also use a traditional chemical darkroom as well as computers to print your images.
The week long course will enable you to explore some of the many approaches and techniques that pinhole photography has to offer the artist.
The course programme will cover:-
Building a pinhole camera.
Printing B+W paper in the darkroom.
Developing B+W film in the darkroom
Varieties of paper.
Using an SLR without a lens!
Using a digital SLR without a lens!
Advanced techniques; filters, infrared.
Image manipulation on computer.
Requirements
Please bring along your own 35mm SLR cameras (film and digital) if you have them and any BODY caps you may have for those cameras.
About the tutor:
Dave Allen has taught printmaking and photographic arts for 25 years, initially in the USA and latterly in the UK. He now teaches full time at The Art School, Marlborough College.
