Week 3: Pinhole Photography Continued

This week we were told in our groups to create our own pinhole image of a scene that could be inspired by either a film, book or music lyrics. Our group chose to do Alice In Wonderland.

We spent time creating the characters and finding props that would help us to create the feeling of Alice In Wonderland.

We started to place our characters within the frame, we chose to tilt the camera down slightly from a height so we could get quite a large spectrum and hopefully get more detail of the floor and avoid getting too much sky in the image. As there were only three people in the shot we wanted to have different levels and depth within our image so we decided to have each person at a different level, one lying down, one crouching and one standing up. I think this worked well and the place we took the image had quite a lot going on so it helped that we kept things simple.

A Digital Example

Here are two images of our final pinhole images, a negative and a positive, which I inverted. I was very pleased how our image came out; I especially liked the angle at which it was taken as I think the perspective works really well.

Negative Image

Positive Image

I wanted to look at some pinhole photographers that could relate to our shoot, I found Bethany De Forest: Studio/Diorama who produced quite quirky dreamy images that she would create herself inside a box to make her own scenes. Here is some examples of her work.