Comments on: Pinhole

By: Ian Aleksander Adams

Ian Aleksander Adams — Thu, 14 May 2009 05:50:02 +0000

Oh hey, I shot that almost exact same place in east jeru, though I printed it backwards to make it work in a panoramic display of prints.

By: canadada

canadada — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:58:34 +0000

Strictly paper. Process both ‘neg’ & ‘pos’ in the darkroom without filters, just the naked ‘bulb’.

By: Administrator

Administrator — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:42:53 +0000

Do you shoot film or onto paper? If you shoot film do you not dodge and burn?

I would miss out on the whole darkroom experience if I didn’t get to put time into printing. I guess cause I grew up split filter burning.

By: canadada

canadada — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:10:48 +0000

… thanks for answering.

To my mind, a ‘legit’ pinhole is the print. As soon as it’s scanned, put in the computer, game over. But then, that’s just me. I don’t use filters of any kind.

And I wondered about the ‘focus’ cuz it seemed as though the ‘clarity’ in the 2nd, 7th & 8th ‘shots’ were a bit to ‘uniform’ from my experience of pinholing …

Nonetheless, a nice collection. Thanks for sharing!

By: Administrator

Administrator — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:37:00 +0000

The black and white ones are mostly scans of prints or even pictures of prints shot on 4×5 film which are heavily “darkroomed” and the color ones are scans of color 4×5 film. The three ones with focus are digital pictures of my 4×5 film cameras to sort of put the pictures in context not pinholes… I’m not sure how to “focus” a pinhole camera.

There is some basic dodging and burning on a soft light layer to get the lighting I want once I get it on the computer… but am not sure what a legit pinhole is? Is it a straight print no dodging or burning with contrast filters or no special film developing or maybe no contrast filters at all?

By: canadada

canadada — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:18:06 +0000

… um, hello. Some of those shots seem a little ‘photoshopped’ to me, ie. not ‘legit’ pinholes … can you clarify your ‘colour’ and ‘focus’ ‘technique’? Are you ‘changing’ the pinhole on route, or switching cameras? Just curious. Pls & thy.