Camera Obscura ‘Dark Room’

Today’s lesson was about camera obscura ‘Dark Room’. It was a close relative to camera. The image below show was a camera obscura is.

In the 1400s images got sharper and artists (paintings) got better. They improved on better details, form, shine (on armour), light and perspective. The contrast goes up every time and the perspective is more camera-like.

A camera obscura is an empty dark room/box and pit hole is put in it. Light bounces off the object outside, travels into the hole, goes up, until it hits the back of the obscura and image is turned upside down. Then the artist traces the image in the dark room. Later, mirrors were used to show the image the right side up.

Some facts: The harsher the light was, the better the image comes out. If one turns the lens up/down or in a different angle and images becomes distorted. Everyone seemed to be left-handed because the images are flipped around.

The artists painted one person at a time when more than one person was in a picture, so that is why many people that are painted are not looking at each other properly in the image. Like in the image below:

During today’s lesson we closed all our classroom with black cartoncin and we put a hole in the door’s cartoncin. The view of outside reflected on the paper that we had inside, upside down. It was interesting for me, because I had never done something like this before. Some pictures that we took while closing the room with cartoncin:

The picture appears upside down on the paper.  The results:

Introduction

During today’s lesson the brief of this unit was explain and later began a lesson about the beginning of photography and some brief information of photography.

In 1939, photography was discovered and was seen as the death of painting. But since photography existed, painters were free to not paint realistic images. There was a question: Is photography art or science? There is no real answer.

A photograph is proof of existence. A photo cannot exist if the object doesn’t exist. Photograph -> Representation of something that existed. It is not the actual thing but an appearance of something.

An image can be used for: Communication (so you don’t need words), information, personal value (that we want to remember a particular moment) and artistic expression.

A film is a series of images. One sees it as a moving image but if a video is paused, the image will be still.