Continuing with my pinhole photography practice I have started to use my pinhole cameras at night to photograph the moon. I expected hazy photographs to be produced from the moons light however, only the path of the moon was photographed as it passed over the tree the camera was placed beneath. This is shown in the first pinhole photograph on display. Without an explanation many people would not be able to tell what the photograph is, but I quite like the curiosity around it.
Pinhole photography at night is something I want to explore, this came about after the darkness and change in light I experienced during my time in Lapland. For my exhibition in the Link Gallery I have started with my moonlight photograph and continued to photograph the same point throughout a 12 hour period in the day. This expresses the light change during the day through pinhole photography. I like the contrast in the images from actual reality, as the pinhole photographs are a negative. Therefore, the bottom photograph, which was taken at the brightest point in the day actually looks like it has been taken at night. This has caused much confusion to those looking at my exhibition and it has to be explained. I have continued to make my pinhole camera so that it produces a round image, I enjoy the aesthetics of the round image as it can't be created using a usual film camera and also adds to the confusion of the pinhole photograph.
To continue with my pinhole photography at night I am going to use colour darkroom paper, as it is more light sensitive than black and white paper. Therefore, it should take a photograph with more detail of the night sky and its surroundings. I will also try using film in a manual pinhole camera, which will allow me to take a greater amount of shots in a shorter amount of time, again due to film being much more light sensitive.
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