Spot the Pot

Ok Finally you get a peak at the top of the pin-hole camera and a wee bit of the side of the bottom.

This is a picture right after i have taken it out of that little rusty bin with a pair of tongs. Its still very hot - oh and before i forget to tell you - i dropped it! AAAAAAH yes i did, i felt it slipping out of my tong grip so i got super super close to the ground so when it finally slipped out of my grip and went TINK onto the hard pavement i was sooooo hoping it didn't put a crack into it. Yeah - so after the fall i pick it up once again with the tongs and get it to the table. Jeez - wiping the sweat from my brow and trying not to be disappointed that i have probably just put a crack into my lovely pinhole camera :-(

However, upon further examination on the table - i see to my surprise that i have been smiled upon by the Gods and Goddess of Clay! There are no cracks in it at all - YEAH!

Ahhh - Finally - that was alot of work. So this is a finished greenwear pin-hole camera. In case you forgot greenwear is only just what i consider the 1/2 way point.

I thought a final picture was needed to show you what it looks like with the top put on showing off its new button stopper/shutter.

I will be soooooo excited once i get to glaze this and fix up the metal piece that i will insert as my pin-hole. Eeeeeeeh - thats my excited noise.

Now where was i - um, oh yeah i just squeezed a soft bit of clay into the little hole, then i have a stamp that i made and i press that it onto my piece of really soft clay until i get a nice impression.

Well - this one is almost all put together. I suppose i would say this was at the 1/2 way mark. It still must be bisque fired, sanded, then glazed and the final firing.

Also this little pin-hole camera got a name it's called Blinded By Beauty.

As for now this pinhole camera i'm working on is name less. So this is me & i'm working on finishing up another pinhole camera, it took me a long time to finally decide on how to make the hole for the shutter (besides for the piece of metal i have to cut later) Anyway i was trying to think of different ways to cover up the shutter.

So this was my latest idea - to make a small hole and put sorta like a plug into it. I start off by making the hole, then taking really soft clay and rolling it between my fingers, then i place that in the hole and push down...

Well, you receive more directions and pictures of the process tomorrow. Cheers and enjoy! Maybe by tomorrow this little guy will have a name as well.

Here you see the last bit of things i needed to finish up my clay pin-hole camera. Lets see theres a cork with a needle in it, rubber cement, black foam, black duct tape, scissors, and of course a sheet of newspaper to spread all this stuff out on.

Once i got into it, doing the last bit really didn't take that long and was not really that hard. I would say the longest part was drilling the hole and sanding the piece of metal from the soda can was the most time consuming.

So now i need some other supplies, like fixer, developer and i suppose some stop bath a red safe light (because i have no IDEA what i did with the one i had already) oh and some trays... yeah i think thats about it. I wonder if i can get some trays at dollar tree ;D that would be SWEET.

Oh i nearly forgot - i need some paper film tooo, i'm not sure the film i have is good anymore. So its better to do testing with new film for now anyway, one less thing to factor out if i think i have a light leak or a fuzzy pin-hole image.

Taking my list to the photography store,
T Lynn

This was a 3 hour exposure on Polaroid film. Thats a long time but I like the mystery of it. This is my tree. I made my tree out of copper wire and it has a copper pole in the middle where a strand of rope lights go up. It has tinsel wrapped about the copper wire that is spiraling down to the floor.

This little box was made because I had some leftover clay all rolled out and my friend Sara was nearby. I asked her if she wanted to see how i made the boxes with the little pointed feet. She excitedly said yes!

The lid i cut a leaf shape and bent up the ends - i thought it would be most interesting. Not very practical for taking around in a bag - but who would want to hide this cute little camera? Oh an yes, this was made into a pinhole camera.

Its super sunny out today!
Would be good for taking some pinhole pictures. However I have a lot of work to do at the art building, so I am going to send off one more resume and then go to the art building.

Ta Ta,
T Lynn