homemade pinhole

They say about pinhole photography ‘nothing is sharp, but everything is in focus’ and that lo-fi feel to this style of photography is what so many modern phone apps are all about. Instagram, Hipster and the rest are all about taking a clean modern digital file and making it look out of focus, blurred and smearing the colours out of true. A benefit of digital pinhole work is that you can see the results instantly instead of having to process film or paper first, you will always need more light for pinhole work than you would expect so being able too preview the image quickly and judge a change to exposure is a boon. Even at maximum ISO in daylight the exposure times are barely hand holdable

Pinhole camera image of the Flitch Way Bridge. Paper negative.

The Tall View

I stepped up the pinhole game recently, bought a large sheet of Foamcore and built two pinhole cameras. One is […]

New paper and chemistry means my Ceramic Pinhole Camera is out of the box and exposing again.

Chems and Paper

My last Ceramic Pinhole Camera sessions ended in disappointment due to fogged paper and exhausted chemicals. You can read about […]

A pinhole being measured this evening.

Ceramic Foggy Failure

I have had not much success with my Ceramic Pinhole Camera this week. I started off using paper that was […]

I made a pinhole lens to fit the Ceramic Pinhole Camera!

Pinholes R Us

After a short delay I managed to actually make a pinhole lens for my Project Ceramic Pinhole Camera. It seems […]

Ceramic Pinhole Bisque Fired And ready for glaze.

Don’t Glaze Over Just Yet

So I was back at the ceramic studio where my Potter Wife works yesterday. The ceramic pinhole camera came out […]

Dating from 2011, the Mint Pinhole Camera was my first attempt at photography without glass.

Pinhole Archives

Back in the day, 2011 to be precise, I made myself a pinhole camera. That’s it at the top of […]

The view from inside the camera.

D’ing It Myself

After mucking about with pinhole photography and alternate processes a bit recently, I decided to have a go at making […]

Pinhole Ghost in my Camera

The trouble with pinhole photography is it’s all out of focus. I have worked out how to get around this […]

Digital Pinhole

Building a Digital Pinhole

I love darkroom work, the first 13 working years of my life were spent in the dark, processing and printing […]