a failed pinhole experiment

When I was going around taking photos for my coursework, I also took some pinhole pictures of the similar theme. My pinhole camera was a DIY one, I think it was meant as a DIY toy for kids. I bought it in a random gift shop in Taiwan last year on my GCP trip. It's not all that great, but it made me curious enough to buy it and try it out.

the box that my pinhole camera came in. it came from a company called "kids.labs."

a picture of my pinhole camera. I assembled it myself :D

it doesn't need batteries, doesn't have a LCD screen and a proper viewfinder (it's just a plastic frame stuck on top of the camera, I didn't really trust it since it was like 5cm away from the pinhole). it also used film, so I didn't know how the pictures would turn out and if I used the camera correctly. I could only keep taking till the film runs out.

my roll of film.

As the pinhole camera used a normal 135mm film, I sent the film for developing at a printing shop. Unfortunately, when I went to collect the pictures and film, the staff there said that they couldn't print out any of the pictures, because they were apparently all too blur/unclear/wrongly exposed etc. Basically they didn't develop any of the photos out because the pictures probably won't show. Though I was upset and disappointed, I looked through the film again and realised out of the 20 over shots that I took, some of them actually came out pretty successfully (the exposure and everything seemed correct).

So below are some of the pictures I took using the pinhole camera. I took photos of the film against a light source so the pictures on it would show better.

this, if I'm not wrong, is a picture of a kite in the sky. I think I took it at West Coast Park, thus there are so many trees in the foreground.

this is a picture of a swing.

this is another picture of the same set of swings.

this is a picture of a hopscotch.

I really want to try taking pinhole pictures again and hopefully figure out what went wrong with my pictures. Through that I hope I can take better pinhole pictures and hopefully be able to develop them.

However, I think I should move on with my coursework, so I shall put aside my pinhole camera for now :)

A coursework update

Hi there :) I realised I have not updated my coursework progress for quite a while, so here it is. This is the last week of the June holidays. During these 4 weeks I focused on going around and taking photos for my coursework. I was hoping to finish taking photos over the holidays so that I can move on to editing and making my final product when Term 3 starts.

Below are photographs that I took of the different themes that I wanted to use.

Swings.

Bear. Torchlight. Silhouettes. Don't you think this bear looks like a superstar haha.

I would like to leave this theme as a mystery :D Partly because I'm still experimenting with the compositions etc. The broad theme for this idea is imagination. The brillant imaginations of children :)

Playgrounds. The havens of kids.

Mimosa plants. I don't know about you but when I was young I would never pass a mimosa plant without touching it and watching it close :D

Kites.

A child cycling. Basically just kids doing what they do best (having fun).

Taiwan Memories

As part of my school's GCP program, I went to Taiwan at the end of last year. During the 18-day program, we visited schools and various tourist attractions. I can only say that Taiwan is really really beautiful :) Below are some photos that I took in Taiwan:

It's a long story. To put it short: strong wind.

The umbrella belonged to my roommate by the way. She didn't get it back :(

Can you tell that this is taken from inside a bus? :D

The sun was setting when we were on the way to dinner (I think) and I caught sight of the amazing sunset view outside the window. I like how the sky is contrastingly orange and grey :)

Pretty clouds :)

I took this picture because the tree that these pink flowers were growing on was completely branches with no leaves. It seems so magical that a bunch of small, bright pink flowers can grow on such a tree :D

This picture of flowers is taken during our visit to the Taiwan Floral Expo 2010. There were many different species of flowers in the expo, and I enjoyed being able to crouch down and take so many macro shots. The following 4 photos are also taken in the Floral Expo.

This photo is pretty grainy because I zoomed too much to take the squirrel :/

The top levels of Taipei 101 building that was not accessible to visitors.

The sky was really pretty that day :)

Notice the bright thing in the middle of the orange sky. I THINK IT'S A METEOR :D

Categories

So we have to have certain categories in our blog. I don't do a wide variety of art, so I won't have artworks for some of the categories. But who knows maybe I will do those kinds of artworks in the future :)

Categories

- Coursework everything and anything to do with my sec4 coursework

- 2D Art paintings, sketches etc

- 2D Design designs on paper? (eg. fashion design), graphic design (using computer)

- 3D Art sculptures etc

- 3D Design 3D forms of 2D design

- Others anything that doesn't fit into the above categories

- Others - photography this is not one of the required categories, but I thought it would be good to list photography as one category on its own because I tend to do more of it (technically it's under others :D)