How to turn your house into a giant camera
Sunday 29 March 2020, 23:32 by Michelle Peeters | 4,527 views | 3 commentsThis article was translated from Dutch with the help of AI. Read the original.
Photographer and DIY camera extraordinaire Brendan Barry has shared an instructional video showing how to turn a room in your house into a camera and record the images you create.
In this 30-minute video, he shows the whole process, from finding a suitable room and choosing a lens to setting the exposure and creating a positive print.
Although he demonstrates the process using black-and-white photographic paper, he also explains how photos can be made with digital cameras.
It's really fun to do, Brendan explained, and a fun way to do something creative when you're at home during this Coronavirus outbreak. I love the process because it playfully explains how photographs are made and allows us to look at photography in a different way.
In the video, Brendan shows the effects of a range of lenses mounted on a blacked-out window, including a glasses lens and a magnifying glass, but he says that if you want to get the best possible quality, you need to be picky about the lens you use. In the video, I quickly show a process lens.
If you have one, it will give you the best results. They are designed to make very large prints and provide extra clarity and resolution. They don't have to be expensive, and decent examples can be found on auction sites.
If you measure your wall and find that it is 2 metres wide, you need a 2500 mm lens, but you don't have to make large prints!
About the author
Michelle Peeters is fotografe en oprichter van DeuxBleus Fotografie. Michelle herkent het bijzondere in het gewone en het gewone in het bijzondere. Ze heeft zich nooit willen specialiseren en is daardoor van alle markten thuis.
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3 comments
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Huub Keulers
wrote on Tuesday 31 March 2020 at 20:54
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Great article Michelle! Thanks for sharing it.
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Frank wrote on Tuesday 7 April 2020 at 11:31
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great video, this is how I made a partial solar eclipse visible in the past: figuring out where the sun will be at the time the eclipse will take place and finding a room that will be in full sunlight at that moment. then covering the entire window with aluminum foil and making a nice little hole in the foil with a pen in a suitable spot. if you then close all the other doors you see a projection of the sun on the wall or a white piece of paper and the moon's movement across it is clearly visible.
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Michelle Peeters wrote on Tuesday 7 April 2020 at 13:45
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@Frank: what a great idea! Did you somehow manage to capture it for posterity? I am curious about the result...
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