Camera Obscura

The Camera obscura, or Pinhole Camera, uses converging rays to make an image.

Questions

1. What did you see while you where in the Camera Obscura?
I saw the roads outside, upside down.

2. How is the Camera Obscura similar to the inside of a camera?
How is it different?

The Camera Obscura made things upside down, but it can't store pictures.

3. Why was the image upside down?
Converging Rays flipped the images upside down.

SLR Camera notes

The slower the shutter speed the the more light that hits the film.
The smaller the aperture the less light that hits the film.

Shutter Speed
Slow- 1 Second
1/30 second
V.Fast- 1/1000

The lower the number is the larger the aperture and the higher, the smaller.
(a low aperture will be blurred)

1/4 sec' + f/2.8 = white
1/4 sec' + f/4 = too bright
1/8 sec' + f/4 = too bright
1/8 sec' + f/5.6 = too bright/blurry
1/15 sec' + f/5.6 = too bright/blurry
1/15 sec' + f/22 = too dark

Depth of Field
-Foreground
-Backround

The smaller the aperture the greater the depth of field.

Notes from the last lesson

Semiotics and Representation

Semiotics - is the study of signs or image.

Connotation - is what an image means to you.

Denotation - is what is literally in the image.

Signifier - is the image that we see.

Signified - is the action we take when we see the Signifier.