Stratford Academy issued the following announcement on May 23.
Beginning in February 2022, the students from the Photography 2 course began hanging long exposure pinhole cameras around campus. A pinhole camera is a camera with a very small aperture and no lens. The camera can be any size or shape and holds a sheet of silver gelatin paper. With a regular pinhole camera, the image is taken between one second and several minutes, and the paper is developed in a darkroom. A long exposure camera or solargraphy camera is like a pinhole camera in size and shape, but it takes an image over days, months, or years. Solargraphy cameras are installed outdoors and made to withstand the elements since they are positioned for a long period of time. The images captured through long exposure cameras can only be developed in a low-lit room using a scanner and photography software.
Students in the Photography 2 course installed two cameras each, one facing South and one facing a different direction. One camera was installed for 94 days, while the second camera was installed between 28 days and 54 days, depending on its location. A long exposure camera, if faced in the right direction, will capture the sun’s rays from sunrise to sunset. In the images attached, where the lines are broken, the sun’s rays were interrupted with rain or clouds. The lines closer to the horizon signify winter, while the lines higher in the sky signify spring. Thank you to everyone who was supportive of these students and their experimentation. We will continue to install and capture images through long exposure cameras in the future.
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Source: Stratford Academy
