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This is called Curiosity because in the photo, I look very curious. This is one of my pinhole camera shots and it is my best one. To create pictures woth a pinhole camera, you need a pinhole camera, film paper, a darkroom, developer, stopper, fixer and water. In the darkroom, you place the film paper in the pinhole camera, with the shiny side in front of the hole. Then walk outside with the shutter closed so that the light does not get in. Place the camera on a flat surface so that the finished picture will be clear. Then without moving the camera, open the shutter. It depends on how much light there is where you are taking the photo, and it depends on the size of your pinhole camera. If your camera is the size of a film canister, then it is normally 5 seconds in the sunlight and 10 seconds in the shade. Once you have taken your shot, close the shutter and bring the camera back in to the darkroom. The only light that film paper is not sensitive to is red light. So use red light to see what you are doing. Open up the camera and take out the film paper. Dip it into the developer for no more than two minutes, then move it into the stopper for a couple of seconds, and then move it into the fixer for a few minutes. Then take your photo and rinse it in the water. You may now turn on the lights in the room to look at the photo that the camera created. Once you see the finished photo you can decide if you had left the shutter open for too long, not long enough or for the pefect amount of time. If the photo is black, you left it open for too long. So divide the time in half. If the photo is white you didn't leave it open for long enough, so double the time. Now you can create as many photos as you want. You should set them on a flat surface to dry, and when you are done, and the photos are all dry, you can create your own pinhole camera album to share with all of your friends. I used the same method for all of my shots. Along the way I made a few mistakes, but they helped myself and others in the long run. For this shot I left the shutter open for ten seconds. This is a photo of me with trees in the background. I had inverted this photo on Photoshop to have positive image.

This photo is called the mistake. Believe it or not, but this photo was also created using my pinhole camera. It did not turn out as expected because I had made a mistake. Instead of opening up the shutter once the camera was in place, I opened up the cap. Since the film paper was exposed to the light, it turned pink. I had realized my mistake when I was walking inside and I had two objects in my hand, the cap and the canister. I had learned from my mistake because the next time I was creful to open the shutter and not the cap.