Pinhole Photography
Published by Stefan on Dienstag, Februar 16, 2010
All images are taken with a pinhole camera built by myself. It was simply a box made of chipboard (yes, quite sturdy) a lid to close the camera and to take out the film in the darkroom. The Lens was a piece of aluminium foil pierced by the tip of a needle. Sadly this great piece of technology (;-) has been thrown away - at least I can’t find it anymore… I liked taking pinhole photos very much: it is exactly the opposite of digital photography nowadays. You have only ONE shot per session; so if you think you found a good photographic subject - think twice or take the shot and head home. Oftentimes when I was abroad I had no darkroom so I had to improvise - usually I crouched into a cabinet and changed the film sheet in absolute darkness and in fear someone would open the door. An interesting thing also is the process of composing the shot. Since a viewfinder is absent you have to construct the image in your mind and adjust the camera accordingly - a very intuitive kind of photography. The exposure for outside shots was about a minute if I remember correctly. I could have decreased the exposure time by making the hole bigger but that would have meant to lose image sharpness. Below is some of the work I did with my pinhole camera(s). Enjoy!
Other Sites related to pinhole photography:
Steve Irvine - Potter and maker of a ceramic pinhole camera. Really phantastic pinhole photos
Christoph Hilse - Pinhole Website of German Photographer from Hamburg
The Pinhole Gallery - Website featuring interesting work of different pinhole photographers.