Post a pinhole

I have recently been experimenting with sending pinhole cameras through the post as a package.  I am interesting in forming photographs of light movement.  As I have used colour photographic paper in these packages I have placed coloured filters over the pinholes to see what effect this gives to the colours on the photographic paper.  I have found that a wide variety of colours are actually created, and I want to experiment with what will happen when I do the same with a standard pinhole camera.  The images created by my pinhole parcels are rather abstract pinhole photographs and show blurs of colour over the surface, and I enjoy the contrast to my normal pinhole photographs. 

Abelardo Morell - Optical Illusion

This photograph shows a pinhole camera in action! I love the simplicity of this photograph and the initial confusion it causes for the viewer.  

This photograph shows another optical illusion, where the focal length of the glasses brings the background into focus.  Showing another simple way in which optical illusion can be used to create an interesting photograph. 

Abelardo Morell

I have just discovered the work of Abelardo Morell, who works with optical illusion and camera obscura, I don't know how I have not come across his work before.  He has turned maybe rooms into a camera obscura, including rooms in the surroundings of the Coliseum, Rome.  His photographs hold such simple qualities, but are magical and really draw you as the viewer into the scene projected onto the walls.  The quality shown in his photographs shows that I still have very far to go to achieve the most out of my pinhole and camera obscura work.  The projections of the camera obscura he creates really do take power over the room and dominate each photograph, merging the room and projection together making them appear as one.  Here are some images so you can see for yourself the true power of his work. 

The simplicity of this final image amazes me and takes me back to my first camera obscura in Finland where I would watch the sun rise slowly as it passed around my room and set on the other side. 

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