Pinhole
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It was world pinhole photography day yesterday and is therefore only appropriate that I post a bunch of pinhole images to support the struggle.
It was world pinhole photography day yesterday and is therefore only appropriate that I post a bunch of pinhole images to support the struggle.
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… um, hello. Some of those shots seem a little ‘photoshopped’ to me, ie. not ‘legit’ pinholes … can you clarify your ‘colour’ and ‘focus’ ‘technique’? Are you ‘changing’ the pinhole on route, or switching cameras? Just curious. Pls & thy.
The black and white ones are mostly scans of prints or even pictures of prints shot on 4×5 film which are heavily “darkroomed” and the color ones are scans of color 4×5 film. The three ones with focus are digital pictures of my 4×5 film cameras to sort of put the pictures in context not pinholes… I’m not sure how to “focus” a pinhole camera.
There is some basic dodging and burning on a soft light layer to get the lighting I want once I get it on the computer… but am not sure what a legit pinhole is? Is it a straight print no dodging or burning with contrast filters or no special film developing or maybe no contrast filters at all?
… thanks for answering.
To my mind, a ‘legit’ pinhole is the print. As soon as it’s scanned, put in the computer, game over. But then, that’s just me. I don’t use filters of any kind.
And I wondered about the ‘focus’ cuz it seemed as though the ‘clarity’ in the 2nd, 7th & 8th ’shots’ were a bit to ‘uniform’ from my experience of pinholing …
Nonetheless, a nice collection. Thanks for sharing!
Do you shoot film or onto paper? If you shoot film do you not dodge and burn?
I would miss out on the whole darkroom experience if I didn’t get to put time into printing. I guess cause I grew up split filter burning.
Strictly paper. Process both ‘neg’ & ‘pos’ in the darkroom without filters, just the naked ‘bulb’.
Oh hey, I shot that almost exact same place in east jeru, though I printed it backwards to make it work in a panoramic display of prints.