Pinhole

Color pinhole photos. I think I really like them. Pinhole photos are traditionally Black and White. Photographers have made pinhole photos with either BW film or BW photo paper for eons. The process is well-documented and is a stalwart of photography student courses. BUT…..while I like BW photos, some subjects really, REALLY deserve color. In the sleepy little town of Apalachicola, Florida, there is a tiny water park and playground that was obviously the brainchild of someone in the past. It’s behind a school and next to a now-closed day school. I found this location by just driving around early […]

Pinhole photos with my favorite Reality-so-Subtle 6×6 at one of my favorite locations, a commercial shrimp boat dock in Apalachicola, FL on the Panhandle area. The sky was lovely on this early morning as the fog lifted. And the super wide angle and almost infinite DOF offered by a pinhole camera .

Very old cemeteries are beginning to appeal to me more and more. I think you can make lovely photos in cemeteries, but the older ones, with overarching trees, offer lots of photo opportunities. The sterility of modern, giant fields of headstones don’t do it for me. But the very old ones, which can be tough to find, are great. As for technique, my current favorites are pinhole and black-and-white Infrared. These photos are all pinhole taken on a Reality-so-Subtle 6×6 camera with Kentmere100 film. I am increasingly using this film, as it has good tonality, decent reciprocity curves, and a

Panoramic Pinhole photos. So how did you do that? I have a couple of 6×6 pinhole cameras, but they both operate by the old fashioned red-window where you read the numbers off the backing paper. But you say: “35mm film doesn’t have backing paper”. For Medium Format cameras that have wind-on mechanisms that count the frames, you can just load 35mm in those cameras with adapters. But otherwise, you have to custom-load 35mm film. I cut bulk 35mm film to the exact length of 120 film and tape it to the backing paper in the exact right spot. I then

You go to the beach and try to find a little time away from your family. Pinhole photography and the super portable setup you can have from such a kit is perfect. I brought my RSS 6×6 camera with Kentmere 100 film and a little table-top tripod. Lovely, start compositions abound on an early morning beach. The exposures outside were around 1-2 seconds, as I remember it. Permanent beach umbrella, before the summer beach-goers have arrived. Unmanned lifeguard stand. It says Lifeguard On Duty, but they lied. A pair of children’s teal blue/green Crocs water shoes. I should have shot

Color photography with my Reality So Subtle 6×6 pinhole. 20mm, super-wide focal length. The first one is a familiar subject that I’ve come to like, a piece of construction equipment. They offer such bright yellow, red, and orange colors that it hard to ignore them. I will probably put together a gallery and try to start taking more. The second one of an old chimney from the Porterdale Mills in Porterdale, GA, a now defunct textile mill just west of Covington, GA. Time has passed the old mill town by now, which it’s copious numbers of mill houses. The old