Pinhole Cameras and
Photographs
by the Photo/Digital Imaging Class
The Photographic and Digital Imaging course
offered at Hastings High School provides an unusual approach to the
creation and manipulation of the photographic image. The class starts with the construction of pinhole cameras made out of
foam core. This primitive approach allows students to explore the
fundamentals of film-based photography along with the nature of the
image. Students go on to traditional 35mm camera and negative
enlarging techniques, then study digital capture and editing for the
second half of the course. Throughout the course students analyze the
mystery of photography, the nature of its truth, and the power of the
individual artist's vision and viewpoint.