Computational Photography: Project 5
Alyssa Gerharter and Patrick Hoskins, Fall 2012


Description
The objective of this assignment is to create a pinhole camera, or "camera obscura," which uses a very small aperture to create a crisp image with a large depth of field.

Technique
We used a shoebox with one inside face covered in white paper and all other faces covered in black paper. The face opposite the white paper has a hole for the lens of a DSLR and also the actual pinhole.

We used three aperatures. The smallest was about 1mm, the middle about 3mm, and the largest about 6mm in diameter. Exposure times were between 10 and 15 seconds.

Results
It was rainy, so due to the lack of light the largest aperature was by far the best, and the smallest yielded extremely poor results.


Here are some additional scenes using the largest aperture:



Bells and Whistles
We tried "writing" with light by moving a flashlight during the exposure. We made a box!