Pinhole Cameras

Pinhole Camera mood board 

A Pinhole camera is a camera without a lens, and has a single small aperture. To use a pinhole camera light has to pass through the hole to be able to project the image out of the other side. The shutter of the pinhole camera is manually operated, as is the flap used to cover the pinhole.


Mark Tweedie is a pinhole photographer who prefers to make his own pinhole cameras here are a few examples of his work:

Pinhole self portraits 

Face in the Trunk

Dream of Flight

Objectively in this image you can see that the photographer has put a lot of detail and thought into it and has thought of how his image could look effective. It is extremely eye-catching and amazing how he has done this. You can see the image clearly and can easily tell what the image is on. You can see a person with their hand out pointing in the direction of a bird. They have also made it so the border of the image is rounded and the main image is in the middle. The silhouettes in the image are very distinctive and you can easily see what they are which is what makes the image stand out even more. Subjectively, I think that this image is extremely detailed and bold and you can easily see what the image is showing.


Steve Irvine is a pinhole photographer, one camera that he made has 3 pinholes  he has experimented with all sorts to make pinhole cameras and it shows in his work also.

Corridor - A 4 hour exposure with a ceramic camera.

A 35 minute exposure with a ceramic camera.

A 30 second exposure with the can camera.

Objectively this image is extremely clear you can even see the pottery through the window, on the windowsill. Just by this you can tell that the photographer would of had to test out how long he would of had to expose the pinhole for before he could get such a clear and detailed image. The lines which go landscape along the building are extremely defined and dark. Also the shadow which is on the building of a tree is also very defined as to where you are able to see all the individual branches. If you look even closer into the image you can even see the reflection of the tree in the window. This image is extremely detailed and because of this makes you want to look at it for longer to see what else you can discover. You can even see the paint coming off on the windowsill which just shows how clear the image actually is.     

Justin Quinnell is a pinhole photographer who took his pinhole camera everywhere with him. He tried out many different ways of using the camera and one way in which he found was to put the camera in his mouth and take a picture of what his mouth could see.






Lattice Window taken with beer can camera

 

 

As you can see in this image the photographer has been extremely creative by doing this and you can tell he has thought out side of the box. He has placed a pinhole camera in his mouth and took it everywhere he went. In this image he has exposed it on a baby, it is really effective because it is not anything you will of seen before. He would of had to try this out many times before he found the correct time to expose the images and get them to this standard. You can see every single detail in this image and the way he has cantered the baby right in the middle of the image makes it more effective. You can see the baby extremely clearly which shows that he has got his exposer time on point.     

Here are some examples of pinhole cameras: 

These are some pictures of my own pinhole photography. To do the pinhole cameras we got a Carlsberg can with a pinhole in it and placed a sheet of photographic paper inside whilst we where in the dark room. Once our photographic paper was safely in the cans we went outside and got a spot in where we wanted to take our image. Then we had to reveal the pinhole for about 5 seconds. Once we did this we then had to go back to the dark room and develop our images.