A2 Photography: How to make a pinhole camera?

To begin with we were told to come to lesson with tins which could be mash potato tins or hot chocolate any tin the same size as them.
Secondly we washed out our tins if need being then painted the inside and lid with black acrylic paint.

Once the tin dried we were told to measure out a dot 5cm from the bottom of the tin and then use a ruler and draw a 1cm square around the dot.
After the square was cut out using a craft knife we then gathered a piece of foil and began roughing up one side of it with sandpaper.
After that was done, we placed a small hole inside the foil piece, coloured it in with a black marker pen and stuck it onto our tins with black duct tape ensuring it was firmly stuck down and the pin hole was in the centre.

We also cut out an addition piece of duct tape to place over the pin hole like a lens cap
Then we went into the dark room and placed a piece of photography paper inside our tins and put the lens cap on and the tins lid on to ensure the tin was completely light sensitive.

To make sure our camera was completely light sensitive we took our camera outside with the lid and lens cap on just to see if any light could get through, we then processed the images to check for any light exposures if this test was positive you would have to make adjustments to your camera but if your camera proved negative then you could proceed with the next step.
Then finally our pin hole camera was complete and we could proceed with taking pictures!

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