Pin-hole Photography Meets Lowry in London

When clearing out my photography shelves, I found my pin-hole lens and decided to have a play with it on our CCC trip to London. With the dull weather, exposures were long so generally I was hand holding at 1/4 or 1/2 second so many of the images showed too much shake to be useable but the occasional one gave images with a real Lowry look in tonality and colours. Also tried a bit of ICM with it which worked very well for me. The biggest problem is the removal of all the sensor dust spots as the equivalent aperture of  f1/152 has infinite depth of field!!

Wells-Next-The-Sea

 On the last morning of our short Norfolk break, we visited Wells and tried the last of the techniques on Jonathan's list - various camera movements and double exposures. The first is an in-camera double exposure, moving the camera during one of the exposures. The second image is a composite of an ICM and a static shot.

Other images of the beach to compare with previous visits. At low tide there is vastly more expanse of sands exposed and the isolated sand dunes are very small now compared with 2008 (https://pin-sharp.blogspot.com/2008/10/shifting-sands.html). The lagoon is now dry at low tide in contrast to 2009 (https://pin-sharp.blogspot.com/2009/09/september-summer-day-at-wells.html).

 

Cromer As the Sun Set

As Cromer faces approximately North east, the sun sets to one side of the beach but still gave some dramatic skies and light to play with. I tried various techniques from slow shutterspeeds (eg. image 3 is without and 4 with a 'big stopper' filter) to camera movements (6) and double exposure plus zoom (10). Sometimes the light was dramatic itself  (2, 8,9)and sometimes a bit of processing help afterwards (1,7)

CCC Wednesday Workshop Intentional Camera Movement

Lots of camera swinging, panning and rear-curtain flashing occurred on Foxton Sports field last night as members of the camera club experiment with camera movement.