Student Opportunities & Resources
J210 Photography
Fall 1999
Fall 2000 - Pinhole Photography
Light travels in straight lines, and pinhole photography takes and elegant advantage of this behavior. While a focused lens collects a wide cone of light rays and bends them back into a well-defined point on the camera's focal plane, a pinhole allows a relatively small number of rays from a given point to reach the film. Just as with a lens, however, these rays of light cross paths to a form an inverted and reversed image of the subject. And just as with a lens, if you place a sheet of light-sensitive material in the path of that image, you can record. These pinhole photographs were taken by students in J210.
