Multiple pinholes

I have turned a Cadbury's Roses tin into a pinhole camera, the shape and size of the tin has allowed me to create a pinhole camera with multiple pinholes. These photographs were taken using three different pinholes located at different points around the roses tin, giving a 360 degree photograph of one place. The is a first practice camera and as you can see some adjustment needs to be done to the positioning of the pinholes. The strip of white on the bottom photograph shows that there is a lapse in light getting to this part of the paper. The top photograph however doesn't have this strip of white because it has been exposed for longer. This does mean that other areas of the photograph have become overexposed, giving denser areas of black which block areas of detail from being seen.  Therefore, the pinholes need to be positioned closer together to enable a full 360 degree to be formed rather than expose the whole photograph for longer. 

Scanned colour pinholes

This is a self portrait created by on of my pinhole cameras, the original is the colour version at the top, where I placed colour photography paper inside of my pinhole camera and developed it. I have then gone on to scan in the original to create the bottom version. Again, scanning in a colour photograph and adjusting the colours has allowed me to discover more detail in the photograph, especially on the left eye. Now a pupil can be seen where as before you just knew it was there, due to the variations of hue in colour. Although, these are both essentially the same photograph they could maybe be mistaken for different ones. They both give me varying feeling when I see them too, when I look at the bottom self portrait I get a much more morbid and dazed feeling. This is simply due to the colour and the fact there is a sense of looking in the bottom version, where as the eyes don't seem to have much point of vision in the top, it is more like an image of a heat radar. 

Digital pinhole camera

Instead of working with my homemade pinhole cameras I decided I would adapt my digital camera into a pinhole camera. To do this I simply removed the lense and replaced it will a homemade pinhole lense. I wasn't sure as to what would happen and if the camera would actually work without a proper lense, however I found that it worked surprisingly well. I was able to gain decent amount of detail seen as a pinhole was only being used. The photos I look have a dreamy and hazy look to them, which is common in pinhole photographs. A digital pinhole camera means that I can take pinhole images much quicker, however I do feel it takes away the reason I love pinhole photography so much - the surprise of the photograph being revealed as you develop them. 

Michael Wesely - Berlin

In a past post I have written about Michael Wesely and his photographic project with MOMA. When i discovered this project I became intrigued with other projects he was involved with. One included a long exposure project his did in Berlin, at the time I was unable to find much information, but I have recently come across two images of his project. They show the urban renewal of Potsdamer Platz in Berlin. It is become of particular interest now as I will be visiting Berlin in a months time. I find the photograph below particularly eerie and interesting due the ghostly image of the reconstructed building which, is only really seen when you focus on the photograph. The old building is seen in a more solid state while the new building is faint ghostly image over the top. It shows a deep connection to the past which, can be seen more easily then the new. There is an interesting focus on change throughout Wesely's work which I want to look into further.

Scanned colour pinhole photograph

I have previously scanned in solargraphy images which, I have taken using pinhole cameras, as this is the way you process the photograph - the overexposure of light creates an inverted image of the photograph. However, I decided I would scan in my colour pinhole photograph to see what happened when I inverted the colours. I was quite shocked at the results as it allows you to see much more detail in the photograph than the original colour copy does. (the original version is shown in a post below) Although, certain areas are blurry you get an overall idea of how much more detail can be actually be seen as is hidden in the colour of the pinhole photograph. Another quality I enjoy of this scanned image is the colour of the traffic light signals, due to the long exposure a full cycle of the lights occured, therefore in one photograph you can see all colours of the signal. This is also the only definite colour which can be seen in the photograph. I think it would be quite interesting to use colour paper in city night exposures, as the strong lights of a city would hopefully come through in a scanned image.