On March 1st, I shared my instant box camera with 5th and 6th grade students at Hillsdale Academy who had just finished learning about light and lenses. We reviewed their knowledge of reflection, refraction, and diffraction and they got t see what an image looks like upside down on a camera ground glass. Here are ...
Some people might recall the classic Viewmaster toy… During the Week 3 workshop students learned about 3-d stereoscopic photography which is what makes the Viewmaster work. Two photographs that are only slightly different from one another are viewed side-by-side in a way that recreates stereo vision. There’s two parts to stereoscopic photography. First, the ...
The second week of Delights of Seeing focused on stop motion photography and early examples of animation using photographic images. Eadweard Muybridge was a famous stop motion photographer who invented a process for capturing the movements of animals and people. He was the first to show the position of a horses feet while running, something ...