It Wasn't Me by Dana Alison Levy

Author:Dana Alison Levy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2018-11-12T16:00:00+00:00

When Ms. Lewiston leaves, we all relax a little. Molly and Jax don’t talk to each other much, but they’re both more mellow, like Ms. Lewiston did some Jedi mind trick on them and chilled them both out.

Jax looks at the tin box camera. “That’s pretty dope,” he says. “What are you planning for that one?”

I shrug. “Not sure yet. I want to leave them overnight, but I have to figure out how to keep the light levels constant, and low enough that it isn’t a white blob.”

Alice squeaks. “Oh! What about the fake-candle thing that Ms. Lewiston uses for our circles? You could do something awesome with that, right? I mean, maybe you can use it to light the edge of a knife, and have a drop of blood on it, which could reflect the light. Though if it’s really slow exposure, maybe the blood would dry and be flat. So in that case, we might want to use nail polish….” She trails off as she notices that we’re all staring at her. “What?” she asks, scowling.

I don’t quite know where to start, but Molly says gently, “You know we can’t have knives in school, right?”

Erik nods so vigorously I think he might injure himself. “That’s true. Aidan on the soccer team…he had a Swiss Army knife in his backpack from a camping trip and he was sent home for the day even though it was his dad’s! But”—Erik gets a little pink and mumbly—“I still think that was a really cool idea. I mean, if we could, I think it would be awesome.”

Alice beams. “Thank you!”

Interesting.

Still, I have work to do if I’m going to get these things set up before we have to go home or, worse, circle up again for another round of “Who hates poor Theo?”

I poke around in my bag. “It looks like I have enough stuff for four cameras, though each one will be a little different. Here’s the thing: when you want to do a long exposure like this, not only do you have to make it a pretty big camera, relatively speaking, and make the hole pretty small, but you also need some kind of filter.”

“Isn’t overnight going to be way too long?” Andre asks. “I mean, when we did pinhole cameras in art, I think the longest we ever left them was five minutes, maybe?”

I nod. “Yeah, we did—”

Jax interrupts. “And that was the one where I totally whiffed it and forgot to make the second hole, so basically got nothing. I tried to tell Smitty that it was a picture of the Black Experience, but he wasn’t buying.” He shakes his head and gives a barking not-funny laugh. “Just another total fail.”

I look at Jax. “If it makes you feel any better, when I first got to use a serious film camera, like the kind professionals use, I went out for three hours in the neighborhood, setting up shots, getting all serious about framing them and stuff, and moving around shooting from different angles like some kind of rock-star photographer.

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