26 March 2009

My pinhole camera


I have finished my pinhole camera and have been taking some exposures around the city of Manchester.  The camera is made of tin cans and cardboard (so it is falling apart a little bit, maybe I will try and make a camera from a more substantial material), and it has four apertures all of various diameters.  I placed the tripod over the site which had been picked by the dart on the map and photographed various scenes in the area.  I love the effects of the pinhole camera, the detail is delicate and discrete.  I also like how no one will ever be able to reproduce that same image again, like you could with a negative or a digital camera. 

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