Some ideas of how pinhole photography works

1. Photography in a box
Some ideas of how it works

2. Photography
• Photography is a word derived from the Greek
• PHOTO = light
• GRAPHEIN = to draw
• It is a method of recording images by the action of light

3. Camera obscura
• It was the first form of
photography.
• It is a dark box or room
with a little hole where
light comes in.
• Images are projected
upside-down and right to
left.

4. A camera obscura in a cardboard box.

5. A camera obscura
in a dark room

7. In the old times people
used camera obscuras for
drawing or just for
viewing, not for taking
photos

8. Pinhole photography

9. Pinhole camera
Càmera Estenopèica
• PIN
• HOLE
• The word estenopeica also comes
from the Greek
• STENO = narrow, small
• OPE = hole

10. What can we make a pinhole camera of?
Cardboard box Can

12. • A pinhole camera is completely dark except the hole.
• The hole needs to be really small.
• We stick photographic paper opposite the hole, inside the
camera
• This paper is light sensitive, so we need to put it in the
darkroom.

21. CLIL Art & Crafts at CEIP Can Raspalls
2015/2016