PINHOLE
I have been lucky enough to be taught by the master of pinhole photography, Justin Quinell. He showed me how to get a sharp image using a beer can, photographic black and white negative ilford multigrade RC ISO 3 paper and a pin. Load the paper into the can in the dark/ darkroom, the curvature of the can will create the wide aspect of the image and the smaller the pinhole the sharper the image... I created a camera using a can and grabbed some darkroom paper and tried it out, obviously you have to make the camera first, just cut the top off and crete a lit and you are ready to go.
What I love about the process is its simplicity, showing you how light works at a very basic level. captured from a perspective of looking though a pinhole, a small opening that reveals the world, there is almost a story inside these images flooded with light. The aesthetic is very easily recognisable of pinhole, with extreme wide angle of view and dark vignetting in the corners, these images are hard to perfect and to get a sharp final result that is exposed and shows detail. but if you had a specially formatted and designed camera then you can get amazing quality, using film as swell as paper would be awesome.
This is a few of what I've created recently.
What I love about the process is its simplicity, showing you how light works at a very basic level. captured from a perspective of looking though a pinhole, a small opening that reveals the world, there is almost a story inside these images flooded with light. The aesthetic is very easily recognisable of pinhole, with extreme wide angle of view and dark vignetting in the corners, these images are hard to perfect and to get a sharp final result that is exposed and shows detail. but if you had a specially formatted and designed camera then you can get amazing quality, using film as swell as paper would be awesome.
This is a few of what I've created recently.
