Photo workshop #6 - Pinhole technique

Our last workshop, we knew it had to be special. And it was! 

Because, what could be better for a photography club than to make our very own handmade cameras out of shoe or cereal boxes and to learn one of the simplest but trickiest ways of taking a picture? The Pinhole technique.

We met up and started making the boxes suitable for a good pinhole photo taking. We had to make sure that no light would come in unless we opened the hole because, otherwise, the photosensitive paper would be ruined instantly by light.

 

When the boxes where prepared, we went into the "darkroom" (also known as Elio's bathroom) and set everything up.With the lights turned off and just the help of the dim red light, we had to stick the photosensitive paper inside the box and close it very well with black tape. It was tricky!

 Here's Max looking into the box to see if it's perfectly shut.

And Elio and Cristina checking her "cereal photo box".

When everything was ready, we run to the street to take our very first pinhole photo! We chose what to photograph and then open the shutter (the hole covered with black tape) for 30 seconds or 1 minute, depending on the light and what we thought would be OK.

 
 

We were very excited to see the pictures showing up on the paper when we put them into the chemicals, back into the darkroom.

We did the same process several times and we got very interesting result and had a lot of fun.

In Elise's words: "We discovered a new and fantastic technique that is pinehole: we took pictures with black boxes!! And used Elio's restroom as a darkroom…  Probably the funniest workshop!"

 

 

 

Margarita Ruiz - Photos and text 

Photo workshop #5 - Photographing street art in Brussels

Brussels is the capital of comics. 

 There are walls with comic graffiti and street art everywhere in the city! In this ocassion, we had to go for a walk and try to take pictures of them all!

Elise Conan - photos and text

Photo workshop #4 - Macro practice and visit to the Royal Greenhouses of Laeken

This time workshop was very special because we went to visit the Royal Greenhouses of Laeken that are opened only two weeks a year!

 

 

 It was a visit by night of the gardens and the greenhouses.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 We put in practice what we had learned about macro photography and enjoyed a fantastic visit!

Elise Conan - text and photos

Maxime Arnaud and Simon - photos

Photo workshop #1 - Portrait

Today it was our first Workshop as a Photography club. We were all very excited to meet each other on a Sunday morning to do one of the things we like the most: taking pictures!

Our adviser, Elio, was waiting for us at 12pm at Place Jourdan to start with our very first workshop about "portraits".
And what is interesting about Place Jourdan on a Sunday? It's market day, of course! And the place is full of colours and people. 













For a lot of us, at first, it was very awkward to ask people to pose for us as models for our portraits, but in the end we all managed to take a portrait or two.
These are the pictures from some of our artists:

"Vendeuse et lapin" by Margarita Ruiz-Temprano

 

Photo by Ewa Magnowska

We had a great time together and we are looking forward to our next workshop.


Article by Margarita Ruiz-Temprano, Photo Committee Assistant for"Brussels by us" and Blog Coordinator".