Camera Obscura
After hours of working and even breaking a sweat, I am able to conclude that creating a camera obscura is not easy! ...But the results are definitely worth it.
My teammates and I found a small hall in the Cass Communications Building that had a large window and doors on both sides that could be shut (to eliminate the most amount of light).
We started by laying out three trash bags beside each other and taping them together then taped them over the window. We had to repeat this step multiple times as we had 3 layers vertically to cover the height of it. We also had to do another layer over the first layer because it wasn't dark enough.
We ran into plenty of errors when doing it because when we turned the lights out we figured out that there was an emergency light that couldn't be turned off so we actually had to cover that light (3 layers of trash bags). It also didn't help that none of us girls were tall enough to reach the top of the window or the ceiling to cover the emergency light so we had to pull tables out from another room to be able to do it.
Then we anxiously poked a hole into the trash bag. I started with a safety pin needle, and nothing happened. Next we tried a pencil to make the hole a little bigger, but still, nothing. At this point I was getting upset and annoyed because we had been working for two hours and we weren't seeing any results. but then Michaela stuck her hand into the hole and then FINALLY... IT HAPPENED.
The bigger the hole, the more light exposed, so it was a little easier to see but the picture would become slightly more blurry.
we started poking holes everywhere, and the outcome was so interesting. It showed different perspectives of the city.
My teammates and I found a small hall in the Cass Communications Building that had a large window and doors on both sides that could be shut (to eliminate the most amount of light).
We started by laying out three trash bags beside each other and taping them together then taped them over the window. We had to repeat this step multiple times as we had 3 layers vertically to cover the height of it. We also had to do another layer over the first layer because it wasn't dark enough.We ran into plenty of errors when doing it because when we turned the lights out we figured out that there was an emergency light that couldn't be turned off so we actually had to cover that light (3 layers of trash bags). It also didn't help that none of us girls were tall enough to reach the top of the window or the ceiling to cover the emergency light so we had to pull tables out from another room to be able to do it.
Then we anxiously poked a hole into the trash bag. I started with a safety pin needle, and nothing happened. Next we tried a pencil to make the hole a little bigger, but still, nothing. At this point I was getting upset and annoyed because we had been working for two hours and we weren't seeing any results. but then Michaela stuck her hand into the hole and then FINALLY... IT HAPPENED.
The bigger the hole, the more light exposed, so it was a little easier to see but the picture would become slightly more blurry.
we started poking holes everywhere, and the outcome was so interesting. It showed different perspectives of the city.
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