I needed a break from commercial work, so started to play with pinhole photography. 15 years ago I was shooting some digital pinhole images with Canon EOS 10D camera focusing mostly on still file like flowers, and even a bottle of beer. This time I’ve got a camera body cap with 0.2 mm pinhole for my Sony cameras. It’s a dustless pinhole with a micro thin layer of glass behind the pinhole keeping any dust away from a digital sensor.
Here are some first pinhole images from this new project. I was using exposure times from 10 to 30 seconds and ISO 100. Framing with a digital camera is pretty easy. Focus is soft, but everything is in focus. I’ve discovered one nice feature of pinhole photography that I didn’t appreciate 15 years ago. I don’t need my reading glasses for focusing!
Typography in Letterpress Wood Type
I am shooting a lot of words, short quotes and abstracts using vintage letterpress wood and metal type for my stock photography portfolio. So, I started my lensless photography adventure with the word pinhole and a cup of coffee.
Kayak Expedition Journal
Old memories … My travel log with handwriting and sketching from times before I owned a camera. It was 25 day kayak trip across north eastern Poland from Suwalki to Warsaw area in August of 1974.
Kettlebell and Dumbbells
Heavy iron weights are always fun subject for photography, but it’s a hard work …
Antique Book and Reading Glasses
Espana Mistica by Jose Ortiz Echague. 20 years ago, I got four volumes of this wonderful photography book with carbon fresson prints.
Stand Up Paddler and His Paddleboard
It was my first outdoor attempt with pinhole photography when paddling Boyd Lake in northern Colorado, one of my local paddling spots – a selfie on an empty beach on early morning just after sunrise.
What’s next?
More experimentation: extension tubes to change focal length, different diameter of a pinhole, full frame and cropped frame camera, color vs black and white conversion, and, perhaps, some film pinhole photography.
