Photo2Q2.7: Multiple Pinholes

No prism for the two

(From left to right, top to bottom)

1: Portrait against wall. Single pinhole. Light was undesirable and conflicted. Some clear light leaks on the side as shown, likely due to poor camera tape applications, but was fixed later.

2: Portrait against staircase-side of F building, top floor. Single pinhole. Light was undesirable and conflicted. Same problems.

1, 2, 3: No prism. 4, 5,6: Prism

Working with camera obscura and the pinhole camera was somewhat difficult. I am conditioned to using Lightroom to manipulate my raw images, which has led me to care less about whether I get my exposures correctly when I shoot. I always think "just so long as it's somewhat accurate it'll be fine". The same cannot be said about pinhole cameras, or film cameras in general. This challenge was a tough one to face because of how adapted I was to DSLR's and the small range of knowledge I possessed for pinhole photography.

(From left to right, top to bottom)

1: Rylen as subject posing against wall. Multiple pinholes (6). Light was bountiful; I attribute the overexposure largely to having too long of a shutter time.

2: Self portrait against rail. Multiple pinholes (6). Plenty of light; long exposure time was a clear problem, so I reduced in small increments (which is why they appear to get better as it progresses).

3. Unknown, likely a wall portrait. Multiple pinholes (6). Overexposed.

4. Unknown, also likely a wall portrait. Multiple pinholes (6). Very overexposed and likely out of position because I can barely make out a shadow of a person against a surface.

5. Reynaldo's shoes as he walks down the stairs. Multiple pinholes (6). Lighting was plentiful, but exposing in a dark area seemed to counteract that effectively. I enjoy the better exposure here, but the position is somewhat awkward and has a slight dutch angle to it that doesn't really add to the photo.

6. Self portrait sitting on the wall outside the classroom. Multiple pinholes (6). Somewhat clouded, but overall bright day. This is probably the best exposed image of the bunch. Yes, there is a slight dutch angle to it, but the fact that it was exposed so much better than the rest made it desirable.

Pinhole photography has a lot of opportunities for combinations of exposures. The prism effect can be desirable, yes, but I feel that what's more desirable is combining multiple different images onto the same canvas instead of the same repeating image.