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Proving that you don’t need expensive equipment to take great pictures, photography enthusiasts Diego Veríssimo and Ana Magalhães constructed a giant camera with a room and €10 (approximately US$11) worth of materials.
The materials included a box, an easel, a magnifying glass lens, a red filter and a tripod, which they already possessed, with the money going towards materials they lacked.
Using black cardboard and duct tape, they turned the room into a camera obscura by covering the window. They punched a small hole in the cardboard to mark the area where their subjects would pose on a balcony on the other side.
The pair then built a camera lens with two boxes and the magnifying glass lens. The camera lens comprised an inner and outer box which they could use to focus by sliding it closer or further away from the pinhole.
To ensure the camera would project the subject correctly, they placed an easel that was holding photo paper in the room, and focused on it.
The red filter acted as a shutter button, allowing them to focus a scene on the photo paper without exposing it. Capturing a picture involved removing the filter for a length of time and putting it back.
With an 800W strobe with a square 80-cm softbox as a light source, Veríssimo and Magalhães used the ‘room camera’ to capture black-and-white portraits which they developed in the same room.
Watch a behind-the-scenes video below and view the entire project here.
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Proving that you don’t need expensive equipment to take great pictures, photography enthusiasts Diego Veríssimo and Ana Magalhães constructed a giant camera with a room and €10 (approximately US$11) worth of materials.
The materials included a box, an easel, a magnifying glass lens, a red filter and a tripod, which they already possessed, with the money going towards materials they lacked.
Using black cardboard and duct tape, they turned the room into a camera obscura by covering the window. They punched a small hole in the cardboard to mark the area where their subjects would pose on a balcony on the other side.
The pair then built a camera lens with two boxes and the magnifying glass lens. The camera lens comprised an inner and outer box which they could use to focus by sliding it closer or further away from the pinhole.
To ensure the camera would project the subject correctly, they placed an easel that was holding photo paper in the room, and focused on it.
The red filter acted as a shutter button, allowing them to focus a scene on the photo paper without exposing it. Capturing a picture involved removing the filter for a length of time and putting it back.
With an 800W strobe with a square 80-cm softbox as a light source, Veríssimo and Magalhães used the ‘room camera’ to capture black-and-white portraits which they developed in the same room.
Watch a behind-the-scenes video below and view the entire project here.
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