Build a camera from junk

Escape the perfection and stale records of modern high-definition cameras. Anyone can point and shoot, but to artfully capture light... that takes a bit of courage.

Empty your junk drawer and hack together a primitive camera. A pinhole camera is defined as a camera without a lens.

Photographer Jim Talkington of ProPhotoLife gives great insight into the foundations of photography by walking us through the pinhole camera construction.