Photograms, Pinholes and Camera Obscuras!

During the L5-6 Day we had a number of U5 students undertaking a number of Photography activities, which included :

Creating photograms in the Darkroom, inspired by some of the earliest photography experiments by Fox Talbot, which also linked in with our photography trip to Lacock, the birthplace of modern photography, earlier in the year.

Some students also enjoyed working in the Photography studio, exploring the creative possibilities inherent in the use of manual camera control and particularly with use of very long exposure times.

Other primitive analogue technologies were also explored by first creating a Camera obscura from a shoe box and then using modern technology, in the form of iphones and photoshop, to bring alive this earliest of photographic techniques.