Camera Obscura

By Shannon Smith

The Camera of obscura

The camera obscura (Latin; camera for "vaulted chamber/room", obscura for "dark", together "darkened chamber/room"; plural: camera obscuras or camerae obscurae) is an optical device that projects an image of its surroundings on a screen. It is used in drawing and for entertainment, and was one of the inventions that led to photography and the camera. The device consists of a box or room with a hole in one side. Light from an external scene passes through the hole and strikes a surface inside where it is reproduced,

upside-down, but with color and perspective preserved. The image can be projected onto paper, and can then be traced to produce a highly accurate representation. Using mirrors, as in the 18th century overhead version (illustrated in the History section below), it is possible to project a right-side-up image. Another more portable type is a box with an angled mirror projecting onto tracing paper placed on the glass top, the image being upright as viewed from the back. As a pinhole is made smaller, the image gets sharper, but the projected image becomes dimmer. With too small a pinhole, however, the sharpness worsens, due to diffraction. Some practical camera obscuras use a lens rather than a pinhole because it allows a larger aperture, giving a usable brightness while maintaining focus. (See pinhole camera for construction information.)

How me, Liam and Austin Made A camera Obscura

We Got a card board box and ducked tape the corners

of the box and the bottom so there was no light coming in to the box Then we got a piece of tracing paper and gut a hole at the back of the box that is just a little bit smaller than the tracing the paper and tape the paper with duck tape on the sides. We got some tin foil and put a little pin hole it it and cut a small hole at the front just a little bit smaller than the tin foil and taped the tin foil on and try to be careful not to cover the hole .

Analysis Of Images
Which is your most successful camera obscure Image?

Why? Are first one that we tuck with out the camera

What was Difficult and what would you do differently

if you attempted this again? I found it difficult to get the camera to see the picture I can see .

Our Favourite Image

Because it has some light coming through the tracing

paper but we now that there is no picture but it is a good first attempt But we will do better. But we do need to get more sun light facing the tin foil so we can get a picture.

Our Least Favourite Image

This one is a least Favourite because the little is

coming from the side of the cover because we did not put it behind us probably so we can not see what there is cause it needs to be dark were the tracing paper is but this will be improved.

 www.arbelardmorell.co.uk

Artist Connection
This work is all done by Abelard Morell. I like all these pictures some are very confusing and I think some are like so cool and amazing

My Two Favourite Pictures Done By this Artist

I Like this one because I like the way he has put the Brooklyn Bridge new York on the wall by using a camera Obscura and the red bed makes it stand out more.

I like the way that he has got a picture of new York and put it upside down and the bed is very blended in with the picture.