Learning about cameras from the inside out!
The first HPS After School Photography Workshop is in the books! It was a busy class with 21 students spanning grades K-5. The goal was to learn about the basic elements of a camera. To do this we transformed the art room into a giant camera obscura and the then used every cardboard box and Pringles can from my home to build individual camera obscuras.
My favorite quote from a student when we were looking closely at the images projected though the classroom obscura was, “It’s upside down! Turn it around!” It was a perfect observation how light behaves when it passes through a tiny hole; the projected image is inverted because the reflected light bends or diffracts when it passes through the camera’s aperture. It works like this…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera#/media/File:Pinhole-camera.svg
Next week we will study light, shadow and color; and create a still life ensemble.
