Week 2: Pinhole Photography

Examples of pinhole photography by Justin Quinnell

This week Justin Quinnell a pinhole photographer came in to introduce us to pinhole photography, an alternative way of photography, in which but cutting a hole in an object and filling it with photographic paper you are able to make a camera and an image. 

First we went out in our groups to produce 3 images with 3 different bins giving each of them a different exposure time (Bin 1: 13 minutes, Bin 2: 12 seconds, Bin 3: 25 seconds). We set up scenes as a group with Justin with various people staying still and others moving around in and out of the frame to create weird and ghostly effects. We had to alter the times as the light was fading so we had to expose them all for longer, they all were fairly successful. 

We were then sent off in smaller groups of 3 or 4 to produce our own pinhole. Our group chose to take an image of a motorbike, as the light was constantly faded we had to expose our photograph for 8 minutes.

Below are images of our final image that we made, both the negative then a positive image that I created using my phone to invert it. The image came out quite grey and foggy so consequently some of the detail was lost.