Eclectic junk from the four corners of the ‘Net. And pictures too!
To document a journey across Australia, a photographic duo turned their car into a moving camera…
For over ten years we have been working with pinhole and camera obscura imagery. An important notion in our activities has been the thought of linking of the pinhole device, or camera, to the subject photographed. A biscuit tin would record an afternoon tea party; a flowerpot would be used to image a garden. Blacking-out and converting the car seemed a logical way to image our journeys.
I don’t normally post stuff like this but when you come across a professional model that does cosplay its something to take not of. I’m sure you will agree.
This is a very cool photo project. PhD hopeful Tarja Trygg of Helsinki has been taking multi month long exposure pinhole photos of the sun .
"I began my experiments in May, 2002 with short exposure times and as I continued to research this method my interest has grown bigger and bigger like a snow ball rolling forward. I wanted to have solargraphs even to a half year exposure time."
Tarja relies on ‘can assistants’ around the world to place cameras at various latitudes. "I tried to make a global map of solargraphs. But it is not possible to do this alone. Of course I liked the idea to get a sponsor who would finance me traveling all around the world for installing my pinhole cameras all over the world. After that I would travel again to pick them up. But, because I have no sponsors and no money I thought it would be better to ask volunteers ‘can assistants’ to help me.’
This could be a great summer project for kids. Start the exposure now and when the winter break hits develope the image.
[via Pinhole Visions]
A few nights ago a large thunderstorm rolled across the Phoenix area. my immediate thought was to grab my camera and take some pictures. Now I’ve done this before and I have never been all that lucky in getting a fantastic image in the 30 seconds I keep the shutter open. How the heck could I take a picture that had an exposure of minutes and not totally nuke the film? Humm… Well my pinhole cameras are pretty slow and the pinoramic is nice and wide. I decided to give it a try and this is what do you know, the strikes were bright enough to record on the film. Quite nicely I might add. The negs were pretty thin so this is the best I could do. I would have liked the background to be better exposed, or exposed at all for that matter. All in all its good for an exposure that was done without a lens. Its all cloudy right now so I’m going to prep the camera for another run tonight. I’m aiming for an hour exposure, that should cook the film quite nicely.
Ever see a roll of real old film in an antique store and wonder what would happen if you actually ran it through a camera and developed it? Well wonder no more. This is an example of some Ilford film that expired in 1957. I dare anyone to reproduce this in Photoshop! He’s shot quite a few rolls of the old stuff, go have a look, it’s great stuff. This looks like a pretty good photo blog, I’m going to have to keep an eye on it.
If you like to make 3D images with your camera this tip on the ‘stereo window’ will help you out quite a bit. I know I should go back through many of my images and nudge them around a but but you know how those things go… By the way, if your looking for a smashing (and free) program to make you images, go get the latest version of StereoPhoro Maker.