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27/366 (by Victoria Lin) This is the first image I took for my advanced photography class where we experimented with pinhole cameras that we made ourselves.  In theory, it’s really fun. You load up the photo paper and go out to take pictures with this shoe box with a tiny tiny hole on top. No lens, no mirrors, nothing. Just pure physics and light.  By the end, it was just extremely trying to pump out four pictures by critique. You have to go back into the darkroom to load it and develop after every picture. I lugged my camera and laptop around everywhere to calculate the exposure times for the pinhole, which are always extremely long. And there was a complete lack of control over the composition of the pieces.  Despite how much I grew to resent that little box, there’s still a certain magic in that moment in the darkroom and the image emerges in negative perfectly. The tangible aspect of the pinhole images is something I’ve never quite had the joy of experiencing before.
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27/366 (by Victoria Lin)

This is the first image I took for my advanced photography class where we experimented with pinhole cameras that we made ourselves. 

In theory, it’s really fun. You load up the photo paper and go out to take pictures with this shoe box with a tiny tiny hole on top. No lens, no mirrors, nothing. Just pure physics and light. 

By the end, it was just extremely trying to pump out four pictures by critique. You have to go back into the darkroom to load it and develop after every picture. I lugged my camera and laptop around everywhere to calculate the exposure times for the pinhole, which are always extremely long. And there was a complete lack of control over the composition of the pieces. 

Despite how much I grew to resent that little box, there’s still a certain magic in that moment in the darkroom and the image emerges in negative perfectly. The tangible aspect of the pinhole images is something I’ve never quite had the joy of experiencing before.

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