Pinhole Room in Holiday Inn

To continue my experimentation of pinhole rooms I decided to turn a room at The Holiday Inn hotel, Manchester, into one when I was staying there.  I was staying on the 5th floor, but unfortunately I was given a room on a side of the hotel which didn't have the best view and much was blocked by a tall building by the window.  Light conditions were also very poor the day I was staying there due to dull weather and this did not create good conditions for a successful pinhole room.  Little could be seen by the naked human eye inside the pinhole room, but a some information was picked up by a long exposure using my digital camera, but results were still rather poor unfortunately.

This is the first time I have experimented with using people inside my pinhole rooms when I take a photograph. In some ways I think I prefer the images where there is no one present as the focus is taken away from the disorientation of the outside world being projected upside down in the room in this photograph. The viewers eye is drawn to the person rather than the detail of the projection. The person also gives a third perspective to the photograph, where as without anyone in the photograph it can sometimes be confusing as to which way the photograph should actually be viewed.

I want to continue with my experimentation of pinhole rooms and photographing inside them, however I think I need to improve my technique to overcome the low light levels.