People and Place was the last of 8 free photography workshops for kids at the Hillsdale Community Library this summer. The workshop started with a discussion about early portraiture and the cameras that were used over 150 years ago.  They also got look closely at historic tintype portraits from a family album. Then that they ...

Today’s “Picturing Place” workshop at the Hillsdale Community Library discussed a brief history of the panorama and of the cameras used to make them. Participants learned how to make panoramic photographs using 35mm film cameras.  They also learned how to use a special panorama attachment for a 4×5 view camera. The last photo is our ...

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The Amazing Camera Obscura workshop was very fun!  We started by learning what the camera obscura is and how it works.  Then we got to experiment with some origami camera obscuras and a couple of card board box camera obscuras outside. Lastly, we learned to fold the box that was used to make the origami ...