The Micro Macro World

By Shiori Ito

         

How to make a Camera Obscure                                          

                  Making the Lightproof box

You need to get a box about 10X15 cm. Make 4 flaps on each side of the box and a thick cover to keep the box completely lightproof. Put on some black lightproof tape on the edges of sides where a bit of light may come in. With black paint, paint the inside of the box, the flaps and the inside of the cover. Cut a square into the front side of the box, about 2x2 cm. When determining the middle spot of the side, use a ruler to connect the edges to make an X. the place where the lines meet is the middle. Get a piece of aluminum foil that is big enough to cover the square you made, and poke a pinhole in the middle. (You may want to put cardboard beneath and use a needle to pike a hole.) Sick the aluminum to the square so that the pinhole comes in the middle. Make a small cover with black paper for the small opening. It should be just around 2x3 cm. stick it on with Scotch tape so that you can take it off and on for many times.

*REMEMBER*

The cover has to fit the box well enough so that light doesn’t go in.

The flaps and cover needs to be easy to open and close quickly.

How to develop the film

After you’ve taken your picture, take it to the darkroom to develop it. (the box should be lightproof while carrying it.)

In the dark, open the box and get out the photographic paper.

There are 3 types of chemical liquid; the developer, then the stopper, and the fixer. First you place the photo in the developer and wriggle it until you get the blackness that you wanted.

Then you take the photo out of the developer and put it into the stopper. This is just water, so keep in mind that all you have to do is wash the developer off. When you put the photo in the stopper, it will stop growing darker.

The third liquid is the fixer. You should keep your picture in the fixer for at least 30 seconds, or else your pictures will turn purple and not developed completely.

At last, you wash your photo with water so that the fixer is gone. After that, dry your photo, wash your hands, and your photo is developed!
Cloud Callout: Connecting to the AOI – Homo Faber People from the past used rock and dirt to draw and write. They used paint (made by plant juice, animal blood, etc.) But they find it difficult and not very useful to use them. It made their hands dirty or hurt and had to go get the material often times. So, man the maker wanted to make something useful to write with. In 1565, a German Naturalist, Conrad Gesner, invented the first pencil. It was just a block of lead covered with wood. Years later, people started using graphite, which had a better quality than lead. They put clay in the graphite to bind it up. Soon, there were eraser-tops and different shaped pencils. But as if that wasn’t enough, mechanical pencils were invented. Then there came the ones where you shake the pencil and the lead comes out, or the ones with a soft, jelly texture on the grip, or the ones where you can change where you want your grip to be. The type and thickness of lead varies. But they are all based on how the basic pencil was like; writing with lead covered with some sort of material. Welcome ToText Box: In ATL, we learned about the Micro Macro world, and in Art class we learn photography. So, we put those two things together, and we made this Micro Macro World Project. Here, I will tell you how we made the Pinhole Camera, how do develop the film, and how my pictures relate to the AOI’s. (Areas Of Interactions)

This is the Micro picture of the lead part of a pencil. I found out that close-up pencil is bumpy.

Now I think you can tell that this is a pencil. All the tiny parts and bumps show clearly.

These are the Macro pictures. In the first two pictures you don’t know what the picture is or what it is doing, but in these pictures it shows that someone is holding the pencil to write something on the paper.
My Pictures

Why I chose these pictures

I chose to take a picture of a pencil because it was something interesting to know about. Since people see it everyday for many times, I thought it will be good if I represent the Micro Marco World with it. Also, when you see the first picture (Micro), you can’t really tell what it is, until you see the 2nd or 3rd picture. I like that, because it’s like a mystery and people go “Ahh~~~, so it was a pencil!!” when they see it.

   These pictures represent the Micro Macro world because the wide angle view is then the person is writing something in the notebook. If I zoom in, in, and in, the Macro and Micro pictures will appear. Or, if the first Micro picture was the wide angle view, if I zoom out, out, and out, the other Micro and Macro pictures would appear. So it is like a large slope where something shows large and then goes down until it shows very small.

Now I hope you know better about the Micro Macro world, and also maybe something about pencils. By doing this project, I learned a lot about the whole process of taking pictures, developing films, and the meaning of the Micro Macro world. It was very interesting to see that just taking a picture with cameras and microscopes will represent the Micro Macro world.

   If I were to do this again, I would like to put all these information in order, organized. But over all, I think I did quite well in making this website.

                                                                                 Shiori Ito