13 December 2010

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. 

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