Tuesday, May 03, 2011

Camera Obscura Solargrams.


Taken in Tonsberg, Norway. Exposed for 5 days, wedged in between 2 rocks overlooking a fjord. Don't know how I got the tin past customs in my hand luggage. Looked like a complete home made bomb.

Used a big square biscuit tin for this, the ones you get as Christmas time with loads of goodies in. turned that into a pin hole camera and used four sheets of photographic paper to cover the projection surface. Left for a week to expose in front of the Cotmanhay viaduct, hid it in bushes - though I don't know how it didn't get spotted and trashed.

That's my attempt to disguise the camera obscura.

By Jason Booth - one of 2 positioned on the 16th floor of a car park in Nottingham. Facing a reflective glass building and the sun popping into the frame.

By Jason Booth.

By Jason Booth. Exposed outside his bedroom and living rooms windows for around 3-4 days I think. colours turned out amazing when inverted on PS, especially the last solargram.

Along with some of the solargrams here (with the exception of the Norwegian-gram) we did place 3 more in spots around Nottingham, Mapperly Res. and Cotmanhay, but they were spotted and 2 got trashed/stolen and one (on the 16th floor of a car park in Nottingham) got reported and written down in their incident book as "a suspect bomb left by the al-Qaeda" [SOURCE : Car park security guard].

Definitely more to come from the both of us!