Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Homemade pinhole shots....finally

So yeah, I finally got around to scanning the prints from the first roll of film run through my homemade pinhole. I may have mentioned it in a previous post, but I'm pretty happy with the results. Nothing spectacular or jaw dropping, but pretty good for a first time try at a homemade camera. The issues that I see in these images is that they lack clarity and and the big vignetting on the the one side. The good thing is that I think I know why those issues came up. I made the pinhole through some gaffer tape and I believe that's the reason for the fuzziness. I also didn't get this pinhole centered in the bigger hole in the side of the camera, and I'm pretty sure that's the reason for the vignetting.

This is the very first image made with this camera. It's of the sun rising up through from trees and a pond in a park that I pass on my way to work.

Flatiron Building, NYC. I love the old timey look of this.

Fallen Leaves, Linden, NJ. Fall is the best season.
So these are just three of the five images I made prints of from this first roll. I've made a couple of changes to the camera before putting a new roll of film into it. First big change to make was with the pinhole itself. I made a pinhole though a bit of an old soda can and made sure it was centered this time.

The other change is that this time, I've got color film in there.

Watch my flickr site for more images from this little homemade jem and over course, all the other cameras in the growing collection.
Have fun.

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