Sunday Surprises

Who knew that students today would LOVE the pin hole camera project so much. They do. I think because digital is their world, they know technology and to see something as simple and barbaric of turning a box etc. into a working recording device is unconceivable to them......add to it that they make it and it works! I love doing this project with students because initially they can't conceive of it working, they bring interesting containers to try and challenge the theory. The week of Halloween, my students and I made pin hole cameras from pumpkins. Here is what one looked like and an image it made.
The camera. Only one lens was opened to make the image below.

Negative and Positive image made with pumpkin pinhole camera. Student on bench,  Fine Arts Building. 9 second exposure on Ilford RC Matte photographic paper. Positive made from contact print in darkroom.  

Printing students photographs for prom dress on  fabric coated with freezer paper. Images are of cancer patients the student has worked with during the four years at our high school as part of the pre-med program. She has been documenting these children as part of a photographic project in my class as well. This dress will be worn to the high school prom as well as a fund raiser prom at Joe DiMaggio hospital in Hollywood, Florida. Her prom date is one of the cancer patients.