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Thursday, January 24, 2008

LOOKING THRU A PINHOLE

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I had been busy messing around with my selfmade pinhole camera and spending hours in darkroom developing them. I love them!~ so experiemental!~ What You do is you get a box or can or watever object, blacktake the whole thing to prevent any reflection or light leak. Cut a hole. the attach a thin copper piece at the hole with a pinhole pierced thru it. snad the hole. use black tape to make a shutter to cover the piercing. place a piece of RC paper into the container when you are in a darkroom. get to where ever you wanna take a photo, open the shutter to expose for some time. This is the hard part, you have to gauge how long it is. Most prob it will turn out total black or total white, cus it is diffficult to get the exposure timing right. When you get it~ close the shutter and go to the darkroom, remove the rc paper and dip it into a series of chemicals to and then~ you will slowly see the imgae coming out. That's your negative. =)you have to go thru a few more processes to get it right. I scanned them all but will only upload them when i get hold of the hard disk. for now, brace your eyes with 4 of the the dig cam took pinhole camera fruits!!! low qlty but the idea is there. yes, it was all taken using a box i bought for $2. Something you will buy to just keep a present! I shall upload them soon!~ all because of them, I had been spending so much time in school.



[ on adm rooftop. Had to hold in position for 30secs]
[ distorted the rc paper . at a bush, adm sunken plaza.]

[ shooting mat shoot me. the uptight pinhole camera girl!]

[ADM glass walls. love the reflection of clouds]

I love adm! so many good films to watch in the library. Banned films included. =) I was watching Ju Dou by Zhang yi mou this afternoon. Well, quite an overrated film. But yes, gongli is really good. I am anticipating his Big Red lantern. God, tonnes of film which was beaming at me as I walk past the shelves in the library..~

Life is good. So purposeful. Just need to further cleanse my mind a little and i will be living qlty life. oh god~ i shd sleep. journey is long but enjoyable. nitex!~

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