Here's another odd way of printing with some of the coolest photographic results out there...
What you'll need:
THICK tin-foil... or regular thin-foil.
An old Oatmeal container (the cylindrical ones)
A pin
X-acto knife or equally as sharp AND precise knife
Black paint
Sandpaper
Photo tape or electrical tape
Black-and-white photopaper
A LOT of time.
Process:
Take your oatmeal box and make sure it's clean. Remove any residue remaining in the box. Next take your black paint and coat at least the inside with black paint, ESPECIALLY if there are reflective surfaces (i.e. if the bottom is metal). Coating the outside isn't
that necessary, but, it isn't a bad thing to do. If the lid of the container is transparent I suggest both painting this and then covering this with electrical or phototape. Once your paint dries and you've made sure all areas are covered take the x-acto knife and cut a 1-in by 1-in square (1in.x1in.) horizontally centered on the container (that is, the square is equally tall from the bottom and top of the container). Next, take your tin foil and cut a square to cover the square you just cut out. IF you only have thin tin-foil sandwich 2 layers or so as well as possible. Having pockets where light can reflect can screw-up the process. Next, take your pin and punch a hole in the tin-foil no more than a 1mm wide. Take the sandpaper and sand down the burl (the tin foil that sticks up and makes a ridge when you poke the hole) down flat. Tape this foil square to the front (edges only, don't cover the face of the foil). ONLY USE PHOTOTAPE OR ELECTRICAL TAPE BECAUSE THEY ARE LIGHT-TIGHT TAPES, DUCT TAPE, GAFFERS TAPE, ETC. WILL NOT WORK. Take another piece of phototape or electrical tape and cover the little hole (This acts as your shudder). If you haven't caught on you've just made a pinhole camera. If you have access a darkroom I'll explain how you can use your pinhole camera for a regular photographic process at this point. AAAAANNYHOW... at this point you need a darkroom or a room that you can block light out of. Take your photopaper out in this darkroom or blackroom and place it opposite the foil. Place the lid back on and put tape around ALL sealing points (that essentially means go around where the lid meets the container and seal it with phototape or electrical tape. AAAAND, make sure before you leave the darkroom that the pinhole is covered by the shudder.
Your camera is ready, so, find a sunny spot that people won't come by and throw away your camera, set it there, secure it somehow, open the shutter and leave it there for at least a week and upwards of six-months.
A cool detail: you start with black and white paper, but your image will finish as a color negative.
Once you take the photo out scan it quickly, the paper is still highly sensitive when the image is finished.
If you would like to see the results that this process can have go to:
http://www.solargraphy.comNone are mine. D:
I did this process but never had enough time for the exposure to show an image.
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