{"id":150,"date":"2014-01-14T00:40:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T00:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=150"},"modified":"2014-06-15T04:39:13","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T04:39:13","slug":"my-next-cameramaybe-the-work-of-abelardo-morrell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=150","title":{"rendered":"My Next Camera,Maybe? The work of Abelardo Morrell"},"content":{"rendered":"

As some of you know I am attracted to cheap offbeat cameras. My latest project is a pinhole camera that my Mother in Law gave me. I posted a few pics yesterday.<\/span>

<\/span>As much as I enjoy that camera and as much as I plan on using it some more I have my sights set on something even more ambitious but still relatively inexpensive.<\/span>

<\/span>I subscribe to National Geographic and a few months ago they had a photo spread that blew my mind away. It was photographs taken by a man named Abelardo Morrell and he used a “Camera Obscura” to take the photographs. A Camera Obscura is a fancy name for pinhole camera except in this case he used a tent as a camera and a periscope as the “pinhole.”  On National Geographic’s web site they showed some photographs he has made where he used hotel rooms and other small rooms as his “camera.”<\/span><\/p>\n

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The above for example is an image of St. Mark’s Basilica that is projected onto the wall of a study in a building across from the Basilica. The study is totally blacked out including the windows with just a hole about the size of a dime being the “pinhole.” Of course you have to use a regular camera to photograph the photograph so to speak. Abelardo used a small lens to flip the image to “right side up” since a pinhole camera shows a flipped image.<\/span><\/div>\n

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This is an image of Central Park by Morrell showing the upside down image.<\/span>

<\/span>And the following is a video put together by National Geographic showing how they made their own “room camera.”<\/span><\/p>\n