Galerie Camera Obscura is pleased to present “Vies silencieuses”, an exhibition of photographs by Bohnchang Koo (b. 1953, Seoul) and paintings by Stefano Bianchi (b. 1964, Bologne).
i took 3 years of film classes and i still don’t fucking understand how the camera obscura works. thats magic to me idc
this? sorcery. they should arrest this guy
people explaining this to me are missing the point. yes i know its a physics thing. i know our eyes work the same way. however. i simply believe light shouldn’t work like that
I FUCKING LOVE CAMERA OBSCURA
It’s not a great picture, but yeah you get the point
i took 3 years of film classes and i still don’t fucking understand how the camera obscura works. thats magic to me idc
this? sorcery. they should arrest this guy
Essentially, a small enough hole in an otherwise opaque material can become a kind of primitive lens IF the light source is bright enough. It’s the same principle that causes dapples of sunlight on the ground. It’s just hard to tell because, well, the sun is round. But…
You can see the same principle here with the light from a streetlight and a partial solar eclipse. In the bottom images I actually made a shitty camera obscura using a cardboard box so that I could “see” the eclipse happening.
The images are inverted because of how light travels. It keeps going in a straight line on the same angle. Your eyes work the same way!
Our brains automatically flip the image, but it’s the same principle!
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