Man Ray

Out of the photographers I have looked at in this project Man Ray's pin whole work inspired me the least.






From what I can see he appears to be somewhat of a surrealist, I havn't managed to link any of his work to mine.





Man Ray's pin hole work seems to be quite typical, the sort of basic shot which is being produced in our lessons. What was inspiring about the others photographers was their effort to change the norms of pin hole prints adding some demension to their work.





Man Ray appears to have an outstanding reputation for his fashion and portrait photography. He seems to be much more of an artist than just a photographer. He has produced work with much more meaning which I imagine would be quite expiring in other projects.



From my research I have found that Man Ray seems to be one of the most experimental photographers of the era. His work now considered historical would have been a whole new concept during his era. Man Ray did indeed distort and manipulate standard techniqes and stepped away from typical forwards portrait shots.
However with more photographers taking up Pin Hole photography much more recetnely I think that without investigation I was lead to belive Man Ray's work could be disregarded as historical and frankly somewhat borning.

Pin Hole Cameras

The concept of a pin hole camera looks relatively simple.

I've done a little research (picture left is from wikipedia) and in addition to what Mr. Davies said the simplest designs are the best. Its just important that pin hole cameras don't allow any light in.

I will simply use a piece of black card to make two boxes bids of the same size. I'll then put a hole in once of the faces and mount paper to the inside of the opposite lid. So whats pictured is the same as what's shown in the picture above.

I predict that the difficultly will be in mastering the exposure time. I also suspect that we will have to expose the paper for a fair amount of time.. 10 secs or so... I assume to stop blurring the objects in shot must be still.