The panoramic pinhole challenge

In this collaborative project worked in cross discipline teams of four to create a panoramic pinhole camera, capable of taking a 360° image which was then augmented with digital content. Mixing together old and new image making technologies, this week long project enabled me to explore and understand light in a multitude of ways.

I began by actually creating my camera; first by getting a small, curved container that didn’t let any light in (we decided to use film containers), aluminium to use as the pinhole lens and tape to stick them together as well as to block the light when not needed. We cut up small pieces of photographic paper and put them inside and began taking pictures. Each paper needed different light exposure times, depending on how bright the area was so we experimented on what times were best for different locations.

What we came up with were different sets of photographs; some worked, some didn’t. We realised that, because they came out negative, they resembled x-rays. We decided to play with this idea for our final piece by looking into skeletal hands. We experimented and found that using ink behind the photograph and then creating a positive of that photo  caused a white drawing effect onto the positive. It even looked skeletal, therefore, we started drawing behind photographs of hands, creating an x-ray look. These are examples of the outcomes;

With these set of photos, I will be using the apps Aurasma and Aguement to further develop them by contrasting the simple photographs with high-tech apps that create 3D moving effects onto a picture you choose to scan. We wanted to stick with the skeletal theme and we experimented by using a few effects the app had to offer, including this;