Stitch adapter version 1 :Week October 31st

This week I worked on what's called a stitch adapter for the camera. This will allow me to capture much more high-res images with the camera. The increase in resolution has gone from a maximum of 4,000 by 4,000m pixels to around 7,000 by 7,000 pixels. This higher resolution should allow me to have a lot more room to play as I start to arrange these pictures in the book. There were some initial hiccups in the making of this adapter but with some future revisions, i’m sure it will get all worked out. Here you can see some of the issues in the first picture where I didn't get the exposure the same for every picture. Later when I tried it again however I got it correct.

This week I also found a bit more of the bigger ideas in my thesis. After having a conversation with Professor Inciong we discussed the relationships between people and cameras. What a camera means in relation to the human eye. We also discussed hyper vs hypo real in photography. The camera im building is hyper-real. The camera is extremely cut down and is literally showing you just focused light from our real world. Cameras like the ones in our phones are hypo-real. These cameras use software and algorithms to interpret our world in photos to what it think looks best. Those cameras are not concerned with being cameras they want to be eyes. Cameras have their own flaws and differences compared to our eyes but phone cameras and computational photography try to avoid that by using HDR and excessive bracketing to create a perfect exposure that looks like real life. Phone cameras capture the unreal world while what I made is focused on capturing the real world. How you capture the image in the end on my camera is entirely up to you. I have been focusing on using a digital camera with varying techniques because I have a time limit. However, you can do almost anything you want, throw a scanner on the back of it, film, photo-sensitive paper, cyanotype paper, use tracing paper draw the image, etc. The camera itself won't take any photos for you, you on your own have to decide how you go about keeping what you see on the acrylic.

This is going to be featured in my book written out more concisely but for now these are my thoughts.

(Below is the correct exposure image)