World Pinhole Photography Day

Every year on the last Sunday in April, I try to take part in World Pinhole Photography Day. It is an international event to promote and celebrate the art of pinhole photography. These were taken in Oldbury Birmingham in the pouring rain under the canal bridge (no problems with rain drops on 'lens'!) using a home-made lens and old Fuji camera body and in the Travelodge with a unaware model.

 

Grantchester through a Pinhole

I constructed a pinhole lens a few months ago but wasn't happy with the smoothness of the pinprick hole, so here a second attempt. It comprises a body cap with 4 mm hole drilled through and then a piece of foil with a pin-prick hole taped to a circle of black card and this taped onto the body cap (see last image). We visited Grantchester in very changeable weather - here a few of the results. It produced very vibrant colours and the characteristic soft 'focus'. There was considerable flare if I turned at all towards the light. The worst feature is that it focuses on every speck of dust on the sensor so cleaning up the images is very time consuming. Now for some more creative subjects!!

 

 

Fisheye and Pinhole Close-Up Views

Continuing my quest for creative techniques for flower photography ready for the workshop in August, here are images using 15mm Canon Fisheye (low light conditions) and a Holga Pinhole on the Fuji XT series. Certainly the fisheye give a different perspective - can only be used wide open giving relatively shallow depth of field. Pin-hole images have very low success rate bur I do like some of them. The flower ones are hand held with a breeze blowing the flowers (1/15th second).