Through the Pin-Hole

So today we were making pin-hole cameras to take pictures using just a 500ml can, gaffer tape, black card, a sheet of photo-sensitive paper and.... well, a pin. After construction mine looks a littttleeee... like this, (and yes I was the one who removed the top with my teeth rather than the tin opener, still neat eh?)

Anyway, following the construction of our 'Can'eras... (Couldn't resist) we went out to snap a shot or two. My first one I messed up as I got the exposure times wrong between minutes and seconds....

.. so that one came out all black, so I tried again and got my next one which turned out much better. Just a touch blurry around the sides because I was holding it, apparently not steady enough.

Anyway here is the actual photo, the negative (right way round) and an edit I've done to the negative one..

So a little blurry.. and if you didn't guess then it's the big cross at the cemetery gates opposite Waverly.

Had a lot of fun doing this, was impressed with the results. It was like understanding how the process works but not quite thinking it'll do it till you see it, and being the first time I'd developed any kind of picture I definitely enjoyed the process.

-ZH-