Have a sunset.

CatLabs 100 shot in a RealitySoSubtle 6F. #pinholephoto #pinholecamera #photography #sunset

Have a December sky.

Shot on 4x5 FPP Frankenstein 200 with a 300um pinhole in a Calumet view camera and developed in ID-11. #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #photography #pinholephoto #4x5film

More from the paintball park. #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #pinholephoto

A lost landmark. #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #pinholephoto

Some multiple exposure madness in a certain retail establishment. #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #pinholephoto

Shopping malls are haunted these days. #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #pinholephoto

This was a junk airplane found at a paintball park. #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #pinholephoto

I'm on my pinhole kick again. This is CatLabs 80, exposed for 64 in a Reality So Subtle 6x6 and stand developed in Rodinal. #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #pinholephoto

A kid and a dog playing on the beach! https://buff.ly/y27nlT4 #hullkamera #4x5 #pinhole4x5 #pinhole #analog #meløy #beach #kid #dog #play #fun #photography #largeformat #film #efke #pl100 #pinholephoto #pinhole_photography #filmphotography #large_format

This evening on my blog, I played around at World Pinhole Photography Day.

https://zenmischief.com/2025/04/world-pinhole-photography-day-2/

#photography #PinholePhoto #WPPD #April #blog #zenmischief

World Pinhole Photography Day

Bah! Humbug! to the London Marathon. Much more interestingly today is World Pinhole Photography Day – always the last Sunday in April.

Before we had lenses for cameras, and indeed before we had photographic film, it was possible to view a scene, and project it onto a wall, using a tiny aperture. This was the camera obscura used by artists since ancient times.

Once cameras and the photographic process were available, it became possible to do this trick with a tiny pinhole instead of a lens. Needless to say the results are not sharp, as they would be with a lens, and because of the tiny aperture exposure times are much longer than we’re used to these days. But the smaller the pinhole, the sharper the image and the longer the exposure needed.

Nevertheless it is a fun, and often instructive, technique to try – and these days it’s very easy with (digital) SLR cameras. All one needs is a pinhole – and you can make that yourself! (If you hunt online there are people who will make a pinhole for your camera; or even sell you a bespoke pinhole camera.)

There are a number of “how to” sites on the internet. Basically you need only a spare camera body cap and bits and pieces you will already have lying around, like an empty drinks can.

A couple of years ago I made a pinhole for my Canon dSLR following the instructions on wikiHow. It was a bit tricky for me, with my ten left thumbs, but after three or four attempts at making the actual pinhole (in a piece of drinks can) I made something which works adequately if not brilliantly.

Setting up and taking pictures is easy enough. Fit the pinhole (body cap) to the camera and mount the camera on a tripod.
Set the camera to manual and ISO 100 (or slower). You can’t adjust the aperture of the pinhole, which will be tiny, so you then have to experiment with exposure times of 10-30 seconds (compared with the normal 1/100th or faster) in good light; longer in poor light or night. Use a remote control (or the camera’s timer delay). Now experiment.

So today I found my pinhole, and had a wander round the garden to see what looked likely to make a decent photograph. The images here are the best results (slightly colour enhanced). For comparison the following final two images are of the garden with a pinhole and with a normal lens on the camera – I reckon for a piece of crude homemade old technology the pinhole doesn’t do a bad job.

Of those four pinhole images, I think the first, the dandelion, has worked the best. What does anyone else think?

#April #blog #personal #photography #PinholePhoto #WPPD #zenmischief

Angel of the North, 2005 from Between: http://www.willierobb.com/between.html
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#pinholephotography #pinholecamera #pinholephoto #6x6 #120film #mediumformat #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #blackandwhitephoto #angelofthenorth #NorthEastEngland #Newcastle #NewcastleUponTyne #gateshead #northeast

A five day pinhole camera portrait of me at my desk. #pinholephoto #solarcan

Saturday morning in the field with my Ondu pinhole.

#filmisnotdead #pinhole #pinholecamera #pinholephoto #cameraobscura

View of the Bankenviertel from Eiserner Steg, #Frankfurt.

Zero 2000 #pinhole camera, Fujifilm Provia 100F.

#BelieveInFilm #PinholePhoto #PinholeCamera #PinholePhotography #Zero2000 #ZeroImage

My daughter on Great Yarmouth beach, July 2021.

Double exposure with an upside down shot out to sea (look for the upside boats on the horizon!)

Homemade 'fearnphoto 64A' wooden pinhole camera, Provia 100F film.

#pinhole #pinholephoto #pinholephotography #believeinfilm #provia100 #greatyarmouth #norfolk

Rathaus, Bamberg, June 2022
Zero 2000 #pinhole camera, Fujifilm Provia 100F film.
Bit blurry, but pinhole images are never sharp anyway 🙂

#believeinfilm #zero2000 #zeroimage #pinholephoto #pinholecamera #bamberg #provia100f

Hi, any toots here do pinhole photography or tin-can pinhole solarigraphy? Maybe I should just try some # tags?
#pinholephoto #solarigraphy #solargraph

With @drupalcon@instagram.com coming up soon, I figured I’d post one more from last year in Nashville. I regret not trying to take one inside because I bet pinhole photography is the sort of thing @officialjackwhitelive@instagram.com would be into.
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#pinholephotography #lenslesslunes #mediumformat #mediumformatfilm #pinhole #pinholephoto #120film #120mm #drupalcon #drupalcon2018 #nashville #latergram
https://www.instagram.com/p/Bvu66HCli7E/

Looking forward to spring by remembering New Hampshire last summer. Taken on Ektar 100 with ~1/2 second exposure.
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#pinholephotography #pinhole #pinholephoto #mediumformat #mediumformatphotography #mediumformatfilm #latergram #newhampshire #120film #120mm #lenslesslunes