A practical online workshop using everyday materials (no specialist equipment needed) to transform a room in your home into a camera obscura, and then capture the projected view in a variety of ways. We’ll be meeting in the morning to cover the basics then regrouping throughout the day to share results. There will be plenty of opportunities to discuss everything from the basics to more advanced considerations around the use of lenses and ways of capturing the image.

All skill levels are welcome.

A list of the materials you’ll need to gather before the workshop will be made available to those who sign up.

Breakdown of event:

11:00am - 4:00pm

11:00am - Gather on Zoom for an introduction.

11:30am - Begin creating the camera obscura.

12:30pm - Upload a photo of your blacked out windows.

1:00pm - Re-group and see what everyone has done. Here we will screen share all the images of everyone's blacked out windows. (This could be fun seeing all the weird and wonderful ways people have covered up their windows etc... with gaffa tape / cardboard / sheets / cereal boxes / bin liners etc..

1:30pm - Introduce and set afternoon task of photographing the view of your obscura.

3:00pm - Upload photos.

3:30pm - Re-group and share images.

4:00pm - Finish

Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82825188635?pwd=ZjZUblYzSDVrK2dKYjRFU1cvbCtCZz09