Well, I’ve been on vacation for the last week (No Internet also). I have about 13gb of images to process, but this one was one of my favorites.
It’s from the balcony of our hotel room. Our first real family vacation in 6 years.
This was done today with a pinhole body cap on a digital slr. The exposure was 4 seconds, that’s why my 5 year old is almost ghost-like.
Boyofblue.com is the site of the week.
Wayne Martin Belger is the photographer responsible for Boy of Blue. He shoots with homemade pinhole cameras, which are as original as his images. He’ll make cameras specifically for subjects. He studies the subject and then creates a camera, using a wide variety of materials, to capture the subject. Some of his material choices may weird people out, so consider yourself warned. Hope you enjoy.
Ok, so Pinhole photography is basically photography with a tiny hole instead of a lens. Light passes through said tiny hole and hits the film, photographic paper or a CCD. This creates your image.
I teach a Pinhole photography class and our school has gone, for the most part, completely digital. This has caused me to revamp the class and make it all digital. I looked at purchasing premade Pinhole body caps for students to use on their Digital SLR’s. These things cost anywhere between 35 to 60 dollars! This was crazy, in my opinion. So I looked up body caps on the B and H Photo website.
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/105586-REG/General_Brand__Body_Cap_for_Nikon.html
$3.95 – Yes four bucks, plus shipping. So let’s say 10 dollars.
Then what we did was drill a hole in them and then we countersunk the hole. Add a small piece of tin and a needle to make the hole. Finish it off bye taping the tin to the back of the body cap and you have a Pinhole body cap for less then 15 bucks!
Yes, this assumes that you have or have access to a drill and drill bits.
Once you’ve done this, just put the cap on your camera body and set it to M mode. Your meter will not work on most cameras, so pick a shutter speed and take a photo. Then adjust the exposure based on your histogram. A good strating point is: ISO 1600 and a shutter speed of 4 seconds inside and maybe 1/15th of a second outside. You might want to turn off the noise reduction feature on your camera, to speed things up.
Go out and have some fun!
More info on Pinhole photography at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinhole_camera
