The concept of a pinhole camera is quite simple. It is a camera with no lens and a very small aperture, a pinhole sized aperture to be specific. The pinhole is poked into one side of a light proof box or container and a shutter is made out of electrical tape. In the darkroom photo-paper or film is inserted into the camera. The typical exposures range from 4 seconds to an hour.

The cameras Erin and Kyle developed produce negative images because the cameras house photography paper rather than film. A negative image means that the colours are inverted, blacks are white and whites are black. The next camera to be developed will be one from a tin container that will house actual 35mm film, which will produce positive images when the film is used in the darkroom enlarger.

In April Spark Box Studio will be running a pinhole camera workshop if you’re interested in trying this exciting medium.

Pinhole Camera Workshop
In this exciting workshop participants will create their own pinhole camera. As a group we will go out and capture images of country landscapes which will be developed in black and white at the studio by participants. Everyone will bring home several mysterious black and white photographs.

April 9, 16 & 23 : 
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
$90 a person, max 6 people
materials included
You my sign up for this workshop online here: Workshop Sign up

Spark Box Studio would like to extend a thank you to Peter Gershom Allen who donated several boxes of well needed darkroom supplies. We met Peter at the second Creative Minds forum on July 14 2009, after we had spoke about our project. Standing next to the rather tall giant Peter we felt a little dwarfed. Peter told us about how he was a professional photographer in his youth and how his career led him to specialize in aerial photography. Peter offered us some of his ‘ancient‘ technology and we gratefully accepted. Upon inspecting the several dusty boxes we found two analog timers, a digital timer, a color enlarger, film canisters, photo paper bags, dark room lights, plastic trays, tongs, and an assortment of miscellaneous, unidentifiable objects; The kind you scratch your head at. With Peter’s donation Spark Box Studio moves another step closer to having a extensive dark room setup.