Pinhole Pictures: UPDATED! (Feb 7)

christopher · Feb 4, 2004

This... is Pinny my pinhole camera constructed from a popcan, several cereal boxes and half a roll of duct tape. You can also see the negative/positive of the last image I took today.

She is awesome, and I love to develope in my bath tub

(I made a discovery! The red top to those plastic dev tanks fit perfectly over a flash light. and they don't fog the paper. I finally have a safe light.)

mrsid99 · Feb 4, 2004

Very nice work and I see you even made a remote for it!

Just kidding, it is a neat job so when do we get to see a pic taken with it?

christopher · Feb 4, 2004

the pictures sitting underneath are the ones. the others failed because I didn't set 'em up long enough (was supposed to be 40-50 minutes inside, and I uh.. did 20). This was the only one that worked out all day as well, the three before were all washed out because I forgot to clsose the portion I slide the film in.

bogleric · Feb 5, 2004

Neat... I would like to see another attempt.

christopher · Feb 5, 2004

I still haven't figured out the perfect times yet, these are both 1-1.5 minutes.

mrsid99 · Feb 5, 2004

OK! Not bad at all for a get go...looks promising.
BTW, how did you make the hole and roughly what's it's diameter?

christopher · Feb 5, 2004

I jammed a hole into a sprite can I cut up, I'm not sure about the diameter... I winged the whole thing and I guess it worked pretty well. I used a sewing pin and something to jam it in.

I'm trying to build something really new and I don't know if it's done before a lot (probably has been) but I think it's REALLY cool, when I work on it more I'll show you guys.

and I photograph right onto ilford MC RC paper and I scan the the negatives onto the comp and fix 'em up. I have to cut the edges, so the negs look like stop signs.. I need new trays... I'm using glad sandwish containers.

terri · Feb 5, 2004

Christopher, these are COOL!!! I love alternative processes.... cool images and I think Pinny is awesome, too!

More, please.

ksmattfish · Feb 5, 2004

Awsome DIY camera!!

What size is the "neg"?

christopher · Feb 5, 2004

The "Neg" is a 5.5"x5.5" square rc paper.. i want to experiment with coloured "filters" over the pinhole.

scanning them onto the computer is SOO easy after you develop them, I didn't realise it's much funner at home with loud music

nannabug · Feb 5, 2004

Wow! How creative is that!? Another use found for duct tape. :wink:

bogleric · Feb 6, 2004

Definitely getting better, it is fun to experiment with home stuff....

christopher · Feb 7, 2004

So I was out today for a couple hours, well in and out of the darkroom running around trying to look inconspicuous with my black box. Anyways:

I wanted to make the footprints fade, and it works...kinda:

This was actually the second picture I took, but just scanned it in, neighbour:

This is a self portrait, only I was moving my head around so I'm mysterious! ooo:

I Really like this one the best, because of all the weird tones and how I accidently made the trees pop out of it:

And, this one the tree in front of my house, It was a windy day today and I'm pleased with the tonal range in the tree.