Pinhole Camera 3rd Update

Since my last post, I have not had much luck with my pinhole camera. The first pictures I ever took with my new camera were the only ones that had really turned out. After those, I had about seven photos that ended up all black.

In troubleshooting this issue, I looked back inside my pinhole camera to find that a lot of paint had come off from the tape I was using to make my paper stay in place.

Therefore, I applied a few more layers of black matte paint and then added more black tape on top of that to ensure that there were no more white parts showing. After finishing up my box reconstruction, and hoping that was the only problem, I started taking my photos. I retook a lot of the same ones I took last round, since none of those came out. While taking those, I cut the time down in half, also to see if overexposure was one of the problems with my last round. From the ten photos that I took, about six of them were not completely blacked out, which gave me a lot of hope!

I think the bottom middle photo was the one that came out the best, because you can somewhat see the trees and the hammock that I was trying to capture.

Here it is up close:

From getting these photos back, I learned that my box was the problem and that I need to also expose my next ones a little longer. So for my next round, I took a couple more of the hammock for around 15-20 seconds, which was in between my last two exposure times. I also got a few of a lonely chair in my back yard, as well as a couple wistful plants that we have on our front porch. Hopefully they will look something similar to these that I took with my iPhone:

Overall, I am hoping that with all my corrections, I will finally get a few more photos to really turn out well!