For the initial project, I attempted two “turn your room into a camera obscura” experiments.
First, I did the two lobster clasp hair clips with a dark window curtain around a toilet paper roll, as described in one of the class links. I forgot to take a picture of this one. My bad.
Second, I took the left-over poster board from my cabinet of curiosity and blocked out the window of the smallest room of my house. I then took another piece of poster board and duct taped a lens in the center of it. The lens I taped was a filter lens for my DSLR.
Figure 1: Lens in poster board; turn your room into a camera obscura.
Outside the window, we have a row of trees and some wooden fencing.
Figure 2: My drawing of what was projected on the wall.
Then, I read that we had to bring in a working camera obscura to class, and since I can’t bring my window and small room to campus, I tried making a box camera obscura (it doesn’t work, I don’t think).
Figure 3: Inside box camera obscura.
Figure 4: Outside/front of camera obscura.
Figure 5: Journal drawings from room camera obscura and box camera obscura.
The box camera obscura doesn’t really project anything, when I point it at the light, I just see a blurry light orb with a halo around it.