What is camera obscure ?
Artists discovered this phenomenon hundreds of years ago and used it to help them create realistic images of the outside worlds on a two dimensional surface.
Camera obscure is an device that shows an image of the surroundings on a screen. The image is shown upside down like in pinhole. The light from the top of the object outside the window travels down through the hole and makes the image appear upside down.
Here is a room sized camera obscura from the 18th century. |
*Did you know that our very own eye is like a camera obscure; it does exactly the same thing however our brain tells our eye to flip it horizontally and vertically.
Examples of camera obscura in peoples homes.
I had attempted to do this project in my room and it had been successful , however because the image was a row roofs I didn't take any images.