Pinhole Photography is the process of making a photograph with out a lens. The lens is replaced with a tiny hole 'pinhole'... this works very much the same way as traditional photography but is much simpler and less precise. Pinhole images are often not as sharp, ghostly, unpredictable, and require longer exposure times. The best way to understand it is to try Pinhole Photography yourself.
How To Make A Photograph With Your Film Canister Pinhole
Find Something to Photograph, Put your Film Canister on a flat surface to keep it stable with the black tape side facing your subject. Stationary subjects are easier, subjects moving will be blurry after long exposures.
Look to the skies and see how much light the sun is producing and use the exposure guide to determine an approximate exposure time.
In this example partly cloudy, but the sun came out strong when i finally removed the tape so I went with a 5 second exposure.
In this example partly cloudy, but the sun came out strong when i finally removed the tape so I went with a 5 second exposure.
Gently peel back the black tape to start your exposure keeping the camera as still as possible. The tape works as a shutter, Remove it and the film inside gets exposed.
Keep Camera still and Tape off for the exposure time (in this example 5 seconds, Sun came out pretty bright as i was exposing) This is the camera in action, Light entering the pinhole and exposing the film inside.
After the the elapsed time, Replace the black tape completely covering the pinhole. DONE!
The Film is Black & White. This is the final Photograph after Development. The camera did shake some causing less sharpness.
Some more examples below:
Pinhole has no lens so there is no depth of field which means everything is in focus.
Blur and the look of soft images is caused by the camera or subject(s) moving causing motion blur or a lack of sharpness.
The Small Camera has a very wide angle of view.... Tiny objects become huge and far away objects get farther.
Distortion, Blurring, Abstraction, and Experimentation are part of what makes it Fun!
Pinhole has no lens so there is no depth of field which means everything is in focus.
Blur and the look of soft images is caused by the camera or subject(s) moving causing motion blur or a lack of sharpness.
The Small Camera has a very wide angle of view.... Tiny objects become huge and far away objects get farther.
Distortion, Blurring, Abstraction, and Experimentation are part of what makes it Fun!
