High Tech, Low Tech and Everything in Between

PrairieView is all about photography, high-tech, low-tech, even no-tech! On any given day, you are just as likely to see a student creating still images and video clips with the latest digital cameras, as you are a student building a pinhole camera from an old old cookie tin or hat box ( or a pine nut, pumpkin or tea pot or even stranger stuff!). 

What I especially like to see are students combining high-tech, low-tech, new school and old school gear and techniques to create awesome images. For example, our diploma students built their own pinhole cameras last week out of old tins like this:

and this 

and this 

They loaded them with regular photo paper, took them outside 

and uncovered the pinhole for a few minutes to make the exposure. 

Then they developed the exposed paper in the darkroom

to create a negatives like this 

and this

and this

The negatives were then used to create positives the old fashioned way, 

by laying the negative on another piece of photo paper 

and shine light through it.  Once developed, the positives look like this: 

and this

But some students also used some much higher tech gear 

including iphones to make the positives.  

Using an iPhone app called Filmscanner it is easy 

to get a positive image of a negative, just take a photo of it 

and the app flips the tones automatically...

to give you an image like this!