Wow, ok. We're definitely getting somewhere. Apparently 1 minute is a decent time, but we need to continue to experiment. Need to be more careful with fingerprints too, haha. I think starting to experiment with different light levels is a good next step.

Accomplishments: Picture of a car! Hard to take photos today, considering it was 16 degrees outside with windchill. Decent photo, but we need to take more. I plan on taking the development chemicals home today, and experiment over the weekend. I also started working on a clip magazine for a camera to maximize photo-taking efficiency.

Future Goals: More. Photos. 

Accomplishments: Photos, finally! The new film works like a charm. The first photo is actually two images, one on top of the other. I guess what we need to do now is take as many pictures as possible for practice. All of the photos are negatives, which might be a problem though. The exposure time seems to be on the higher end, with (surprise) more direct sunlight being a plus.

Future Goals: More photos! maybe even one where you can see someone's face clearly

Accomplishments:

Tested multiple photos, in order to ascertain if the current setup we have works. It does!

Unfortunately, the best we were able to get is a picture of the uv flashlight. However, this proves that our paper works, it just needs a long time to expose. We tried a 3 minute exposure, but that didn't work. Tomorrow we plan to try a 10 minute exposure.

I made some small edits to the file this weekend, which included a hole to test different lenses with, as well as a more effective way to secure each lens on the camera. I also learned that there is significant light bleed in my current camera, which is something I need to fix in the next iteration.

Today I further tested my camera, this time using my phone to see if light passes through a new tinfoil lense I had created. Surprisingly, the camera worked despite the oversize hole I had made in the foil. I could see the inverse image of the window I pointed the camera at. Im pretty sure that this means that the camera itself works, so all I need to do now is to take a picture with actual film...

Today we tested our cameras for the first time. None of them worked, unfortunately. It turns out the plywood we were using for the cameras is too thick, making it impossible for the light to pass through the hole. My solution for this is to make a new front for the camera that allows the user to switch out different pieces of paper instead of relying on the pinhole to be made out of plywood.

Today I just made the pinhole camera, because it turns out that the paper isa bought is still being delivered. The resulting box was made with a place to secure different materials for light to pass through. Tomorrow we should be able to test for the first time.

Today I found the measurements for my pinhole camera using the mr pinhole site. I also made a rhino file that should work.

For day two, I plan to create my first camera and test it using the cyanotype paper isa brought.