My Tiger Cub den is going to be building pinhole cameras (5x7 paper negs). I plan on assigning a theme like "My Town" 'My School" "My Nieghborhood" "My Family" etc... and exhibiting the prints at City Hall, the local coffee house or shopping center so people can see things from a 1st Grader Boy's perspective.
I've never done anything like this before. Do the experts here have any thoughts, suggestions, or concerns that I should be aware of?
"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority"---EB White
John
Just be aware of a few not doing the assignment or having a parent do it, and for a few funky shots. But also you will be quite pleasantly surprised by the quality of some of the photos. Some will have an unusually sophisticated sense of composition and design beyond their years, and an unusual way of looking at the world.
Good luck and have fun.
gene
Hello John,
No advice to offer you but I just wanted to say, "Good on you for taking the time and making the effort of exposing kids to this ancient form of photography!"
It's events like this that make a difference in the life of a child.
My hat off to you.
Cheers
Life in the fast lane!
I have also done this with kids in my area, if you want to take a look at examples of the types of cameras we built, here is a link to my pinhole web page; http://www.fotographis.com/pinhole.htm
Thank you all for the guidence and especially the link! I think this will be a lot of fun---some of the boys are already talking it up. I'll gather the materials and (wishful thinking here as the temps are hovering around 105 degrees) first rainy day we'll stay indoors and make the cameras. My lawyer might have an "in" at City Hall though I think the local coffee house will be willing to hang us up if I wimper and beg convincingly enough.
Cheers!
"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority"---EB White
If you do a search on the web, there are many pinhole sites. PM me and I'll send what I found, including some instructions, a couple of years ago when I set up for an 8th grade science class...
Michael
Here are the web sites that I bookmarked, if you are interested.
Michael
http://www.mrpinhole.com/calcpinh.html
http://www.stanford.edu/%7Ecpatton/pinhole.html
http://www.pinholeday.org/
http://www.pinhole.com/resources/
http://www.softropolis.com/ptg/
Last edited by Michael Daily; 31-Jul-2006 at 14:44.
Thanks Michael, those are great resources---I can sure use them!
"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority"---EB White
John,
The most recent edition of Black & White Photography (from the UK) also has an article on a chap doing exactly what you're about to do. It was an interesting read and sounds like everything went exceedingly well for him.
You should be able to get it at the local newspaper and magazine store in your neck of the woods.
Here are a couple more resources for you to peruse:
http://www.pinhole.com/
http://www.mrpinhole.com/Exposure.php
http://www.pinholeresource.com/
Cheers
Life in the fast lane!
try the f295 forum, lots of friendly and helpful pinhole folks there:
http://www.f295.org/Pinholeforum/forum/Blah.pl?
tom
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