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Ok,
I have, for the first time in a number of years, discovered my 'artistic' side of my brain. I have a neat idea for photography, which I doubt has been tried before (actually, it probably has, but I would like to give it a shot).
It uses the principle of a pinhole camera.
To that end, I would like any advice from anyone who has actually used these before and has some experience with them.
Actually, anyone who has prepared their own photographic film (or knows where exactly I might come across the stuff to do this) would also be a star in my books. I know all about the principle of the photographic chemistry, but I have absolutely no idea how one would actually go about making it from scratch (or if there are products about for doing this).
The idea I have in mind is as follows:
I will take a glass sphere, hollow in the middle and with a tiny opening at one end (the pinhole). I'll coat the inside of it with photographic negative 'stuff' (using emulsion) and then paint the outside of the sphere black. Take the sphere somewhere photographic and panoramic and then expose the pinhole for X-time. Then develop the INSIDE of the sphere and remove the black paint.
What should result (he said semi-confidently) is a spherical representation of the panoramic image, upside down (although the sphere can be turned upright)... I think. I appreciate that I will need a very thin glass sphere. I'm working on where I might get this already.
I just lack the knowledge and experience to follow it through. I have done glassblowing, so I may yet have to resort to making the spheres myself.
I have, for the first time in a number of years, discovered my 'artistic' side of my brain. I have a neat idea for photography, which I doubt has been tried before (actually, it probably has, but I would like to give it a shot).
It uses the principle of a pinhole camera.
To that end, I would like any advice from anyone who has actually used these before and has some experience with them.
Actually, anyone who has prepared their own photographic film (or knows where exactly I might come across the stuff to do this) would also be a star in my books. I know all about the principle of the photographic chemistry, but I have absolutely no idea how one would actually go about making it from scratch (or if there are products about for doing this).
The idea I have in mind is as follows:
I will take a glass sphere, hollow in the middle and with a tiny opening at one end (the pinhole). I'll coat the inside of it with photographic negative 'stuff' (using emulsion) and then paint the outside of the sphere black. Take the sphere somewhere photographic and panoramic and then expose the pinhole for X-time. Then develop the INSIDE of the sphere and remove the black paint.
What should result (he said semi-confidently) is a spherical representation of the panoramic image, upside down (although the sphere can be turned upright)... I think. I appreciate that I will need a very thin glass sphere. I'm working on where I might get this already.
I just lack the knowledge and experience to follow it through. I have done glassblowing, so I may yet have to resort to making the spheres myself.
