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Hundreds of miles, six shots, one or two images. Sunnyside, WA. Lomography Redscale ISO 200.
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Styx. My day out with Pinhole and paper for #WPPD #wppd2025 #BelieveInFilm I wish I had previsualised just how the paper would render this but it was a nice surprise to see such a stark image.

A dead tree branch starkly presented as white against a dark background. A parkland is visible in the distance.

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

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

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Yellow dandelion taken with pinhole camera

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.

Pinhole Dandelion
(Click all the images for a larger view.)

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.)

Pinhole Red Deadnettle

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.

Pinhole Lilac Bush (from below)

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.

Pinhole View of Our Hairy Garden
The same view of our garden with a proper camera lens!

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

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Happy #WorldWidePinholePhotographyDay 😺

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In the image, there is a wooden pinhole camera mounted on a tripod. The camera is positioned in front of an open washing machine, aiming directly into the drum. The scene appears to be set up for a creative photoshoot, capturing the inside of the washing machine. On the floor in front of the tripod, there is a small torch placed on a cardboard box. The lighting highlights the setup, creating a focused and intentional composition.

I used C41 and B&W on #WPPD . The C41 will take a long time for me to finish, but I processed the B&W and posted it on [http://pinholeday.org/gallery/2024/index.php?epage=intro ] #pinhole

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Looking forward to see what #WPPD images come in today! #WorldwidePinholePhotographyDay

Today is Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day!

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BTS, photo of a 4x5 camera and a church in the background

Photo of a 4x5 camera with pinhole lens holder

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From the World Wide Pinhole Photography Day 2023.

Fomapan 100
Ondu Pinhole 4x5

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Black and white 4x5 pinhole photograph of an owl ornament at the corner of railings.

I hope this is enough flare.

Taken for Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day using a Flyer 6x6 camera with Plus-X film (expired 2009). #WPPD #BelieveInFilm

Black and white pinhole photo of a rock ledge and scruffy trees on a mountainside. Much of the scene is covered in light streaks caused by the sun hitting the tiny aperture hole of the camera.

We mostly stopped at typical tourist pull-offs, but I did scramble off the beaten path for a couple of pinholes that Grandma couldn't reach. #FoothillsParkway #WPPD