Sheryl VanVleck-Wells on sun 12 dec 04
When I lived in Wyoming, I taught a three week (1 week sessions) =
Knowledge Through Excellence for Youth (KEY) summer camp at the college. =
Two week long pottery classes really get you thinking about how to get =
the most use of the short time in getting clayed dried and into the kiln =
an dout. But, that's another story. My favorite class was actually the =
Chemistry of Photography that I developed. =20
They had always given them little $12 cameras and followed them around =
all week taking pictures different pages. Sure, RIGHT! A Jr High =
student is captured with details of F stop, when there is a party at the =
end of the week. After a year of that, I said" enough".
Nothing captures the total attention of a 12 year old like walking in a =
black room and seeing the image from outside on the wall. Especially =
when it is cars traveling upside down. That day about aperature and how =
the larger hole blurs, etc they remember. These kids were great and =
every day was exciting for me as well as them. We did film canister pin =
hole cameras and Pringle pin hole cameras, they printed from the room =
size pinhole, did contact prints and on Friday they painted with =
photographic chemicals. Some years we even used mint leaves to develop =
their prints. It was educational for me too.
Sheryl
Sheryl A. VanVleck
VanVleck Studio
7873 N. Oak Ridge Road
Morgantown, IN 46410
www.VanVleckStudio.com
Courage does not always roar. Sometimes it is the quiet voice at the end =
of the day which says, 'I will try again tomorrow.'
Author Unknown
Philip Shore on mon 13 dec 04
One of the most fascinating sights I ever encountered as a natural
phenomenon was 8-10 inverted images of cars moving down the street
upside down and in color. I was inspecting the second story of a
building under consideration for purchase. The exterior of the building
was covered with an aluminum sheath. Where some decorative pieces of
alumninum had fallen down due to time and wind, there were nail holes.
Behind the aluminum the windows were still in place. The windows became
translucent screens. Inside the room was black but for these camerae
obscurae in full operation.
Philip
Sheryl VanVleck-Wells wrote:
>When I lived in Wyoming, I taught a three week (1 week sessions) Knowledge Through Excellence for Youth (KEY) summer camp at the college. Two week long pottery classes really get you thinking about how to get the most use of the short time in getting clayed dried and into the kiln an dout. But, that's another story. My favorite class was actually the Chemistry of Photography that I developed.
>They had always given them little $12 cameras and followed them around all week taking pictures different pages. Sure, RIGHT! A Jr High student is captured with details of F stop, when there is a party at the end of the week. After a year of that, I said" enough".
>Nothing captures the total attention of a 12 year old like walking in a black room and seeing the image from outside on the wall. Especially when it is cars traveling upside down. That day about aperature and how the larger hole blurs, etc they remember. These kids were great and every day was exciting for me as well as them. We did film canister pin hole cameras and Pringle pin hole cameras, they printed from the room size pinhole, did contact prints and on Friday they painted with photographic chemicals. Some years we even used mint leaves to develop their prints. It was educational for me too.
>Sheryl
>Sheryl A. VanVleck
>VanVleck Studio
>7873 N. Oak Ridge Road
>Morgantown, IN 46410
>www.VanVleckStudio.com
>
>Courage does not always roar. Sometimes it is the quiet voice at the end of the day which says, 'I will try again tomorrow.'
>Author Unknown
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Kathy Forer on mon 13 dec 04
On Dec 12, 2004, at 10:00 AM, Sheryl VanVleck-Wells wrote:
> My favorite class was actually the Chemistry of Photography that I
> developed.
There's a wonderful book by Brian Howell called "The Dance of Geometry"
. The second section
is a bit of a mystery and it's a little hard to tell what happens
without giving away the plot, but in the end a Painters Guild in
seventeenth century Delft makes a political decision regarding the
suppression of an invention related to the camera obscura. Fascinating,
good read.
At times, I am both pushed forward into the centre of my own point
of vision and immensely distant from the subject of my view. Such
an
introduction may seem grandiloquent, but the feeling that I have
described will, I believe, serve to show you how I was prepared,
in
spite of myself, for a revelation. -- Dance, p.110
Kathy
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