One Week to Pinhole Day
April 22nd, 2007
Next Sunday, one week from today, is Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day.
Check it out here: http://www.pinholeday.org/
People all over the world will take photos using pinhole cameras on that day and post them to a web site. I’ll be participating, with the help of several models. I’ll keep my submission to the Worldwide site PG-13 (lots of kids are involved in doing pinhole photos for this site) and post the more R-rated photos here.
In the past I’ve used homemade pinholes…made by sticking a pin through some thin metal…but in the past year I bought a set of laser-drilled precise pinholes and I’ll be using them in various manners this year. I have one that is “factory” mounted on a body cap for my Nikons. I placed another at the back of a T-mount adapter for Nikons to get it closer to the sensor, thus making a wider-angle of view. I’ll use both of those on my D200 next Sunday.
I like doing pinhole photos with a digital camera because of the extra control it provides. I can quickly see what is happening with framing and exposure and make adjustments. To me that’s a vast improvement over working with film and just having to cross your fingers that something will work.
Meanwhile I’ve been doing some testing. This is Nemesis, shot this week in my studio. I used 3,000 watts of quartz light for this shot. I usually try to use sunlight through my studio windows, but if the sun isn’t out, it’s a problem, causing very long exposure times for models to stay still. The quartz lights weren’t all that great, but at least I know they work and I can use that as a fall-back option if Sunday turns out to be cloudy.
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