Sunday is World Pinhole Day

Every year there is a day in April where pinhole camera users post an image so I thought I ought to prepare for it. Barry kindly lent me his Lensbaby composer which has a pinhole option. Here a selection from our local church. The last two are with the lensbaby with lens rather than pinhole

 

Pinhole View of London

 My pinhole is an ideal 'lens' to take on a walking holiday as it is very light and compact being a modified lens cap with an insert of foil containing a central pinprick. They work best in bright light but thought I would try a few yesterday as dusk fell on a very cloudy afternoon. The exposures were between 25secs and 8 minutes depending on the light available. The results are reminiscent of the images that I would have been so delighted with using my first camera (a Box Brownie) visiting central London on the bus and then developing and printing the images on our dining room table. The skyline would have been a bit different!!

UEA Through a Pinhole

Yesterday I introduced Barry to the 'concrete city' that comprises the University of East Anglia. opened in 1970 it is one of the best examples of Brutalism Architecture in the UK (see blog from last visit). This time I decided to use a pinhole lens for some of the time, which worked well when the sun was shining but not so good in duller light. Here some of the better shots with shutterspeeds from 0.5 to 1/15th second.

World Pinhole Day

 Today is World Pinhole Day - everyone who owns or has made a pinhole camera is asked to take an image today. A gallery of all the images will be displayed on the World Pinhole website later. I decided to try a better and more centrally placed hole. Very pleased with the results - much better than previous one - our bungalow and views from Toft Village Green.

Pinhole Images Toft

These are taken with my pinhole camera - still amazes me how an image can be produced with just a pinprick in silver foil. I failed to get my hole quite central so diffraction occurs with the bright lights and there is a bit of distortion on the lower edges of the frame. The exposures in the church were around 60 seconds and outside 0.6 to 1.5 seconds.

Saffron Walden Churchyard

Yesterday we took part in a photohunt in Saffron Walden - more images to follow of other locations. I had with me my Fuji compact and a pinhole lens. The first image is a composite of a poppy from the compact and a pinhole image of the gravestones. Images 2,3 and 5 are pinhole images - all the rest are from the Fuji compact with a couple monochrome conversions as the sunlit areas just asked for a high contrast conversion. The final two to show the dominance of the church over the town and its tall steeple as depicted in a vertical panorama of 5 shots