The Ghetto Pinhole Camera

This is my pinhole camera. As you can see, it's really ghetto. It has a piece of tape holding it closed. I used black foam board and black masking tape to make the body and lid and a thin sheet of copper to make the pinhole. The shutter will be my finger. We're going to take black and white photographs with our cameras and then develop them in a darkroom. This photograph was taken by my Rebel and adjusted in Photoshop.


This photograph was also taken with my Rebel and adjusted in Photoshop. My pinhole camera looks like it's thinking. It also kind of looks like a television. For the most part, my camera was sucessful in taking photographs, however there was a light leak on the right-hand side of the box that left a black cloud on the left side of my prints. I also didn't really like any of my prints, and the effects I was going for didn't work out. I wish that I had regular access to a darkroom so that I could make a better pinhole camera. This one was just way too ghetto.

EDIT: Here are some of the photos that I took with the ghetto camera. The photos were originally negatives. I inverted them using Photoshop.