Your pinhole pictures
To mark World Pinhole Day on 25 April I asked you to send me your pinhole photos, and I'm pleased to say I've had a few excellent examples which I thought I'd share.
The first is a clever twist on the conventional pinhole technique. We are surrounded by unseen images as every dark corner, every closed cupboard where the light can filter through a keyhole may contain an inverted picture of the world outside.
To see this for himself Faisal Chris Joyce blacked out a window in his house in Brisbane using cardboard and tape and then pierced a hole in the cardboard to create the pinhole which resulted in the scene below being visible on his wall.
Faisal said: "I was amazed at the result and it's something I'd always wanted to try. Once my eyes adjusted to the dark, the image just revealed itself upside-down, amazing."
Faisal then used a normal camera to take this shot of the inverted image on his wall so he could share it with us.
Steve Hickman has been experimenting too. He used a hot pin to pierce a spare body cap for his Canon EOS 400D and set about photographing his family and other household items.
Dan Bennett sent in a number of pictures but I liked this one as you can just see the shadow of the photographer in the bottom right.
Dan said:
"The camera was constructed using a Mamiya RB67 back loaded with Kodak T-Max 100 roll film.The lens was made from cardboard taped together and then covered in tin foil to make it light tight. I then re-taped it so as not to damage the foil in use.
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"The pinhole was made using the first millimetre of a pin making a diameter of 0.25mm with a focal length of 40mm and an aperture of f/160.
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"This particular shot was taken on Southsea seafront near the hot walls looking towards the round tower and the harbour entrance. The exposure time was two seconds and I timed the exposure with the waves drifting out to give those streaks in the water.
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"Composing the shot was difficult. I managed to make the camera so the sides were roughly in the plane of the shot, however I managed to get a shadow of myself standing on the wall taking the photo.
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"I then developed the film in Rodinol and scanned it once it was dry. I liked the edges of the film in the shot it gives it that home made feel."
Another delightful pinhole shot was sent in by Omar Kuwas who took the pictures on the island of Curacao in the Caribbean.
My thanks to all who sent in their pictures, it's a real joy to see such creativity and dedication to the art of photography.
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