Pinhole Photography

Looking back 3 years ago, when I first came to Stockport college and beginning the Foundation year, there were 5 weeks where we were given the chance to get involved with each subject before we picked the one we wanted to study. These subjects were:

Photography
Visual Communication
Textiles
Fine Art
3D

My favourites of the five were Photography and, of course, Visual Communication that I later decided to pick.

Even though I didn't pick photography, I did not expect to enjoy it as much as I did, and the reason I did so much was all down to Pinhole Photography.

Involved in Pinhole Photography is combining a cardboard box with a piece of negative paper placed inside of it, facing cardboard with nothing but a pinhole in it, covered by tape to secure the light.

Exposing the paper to light for a certain amount of time will create an image on the paper. Careful not to expose it for too little or too long expects alot of practice, but when getting it just write the results are an accurate image appearing on the paper when processed.

I remember vividly enjoying this time in the first 5 weeks, and enjoyed working as a team.

When I picked Visual Communications, and then after that choosing Graphic Design as my pathway for a degree, I did not expect to use Pinhole Photography again.

However, in first year the chance came up again, and we were invited back to photography to use pinhole photography with our graphic design work.

I thoroughly enjoyed the whole experience, and these are the results


I hope to use this technique sometime in my final year.