Becky Ramotowski by Fabiola B.

Becky Ramotowski

 Becky is an amateur astronomer and she is exploring the sun in very unique way. Another passion is pinhole photography, and when she discovered a way to combine astronomy with making pinhole images of the sun’s path, she founded the perfect match.

 Her first long exposure pinhole solographs were taken when she couldn’t stand the suspense of not knowing what was happening inside the homemade cameras she has made. After seeing her first solographs it turns out successfully. That gave her the confidence to let the exposures run for sox months to capture the Sun’s path from summer to winter solstice.

 It took her a little luck and a lot of patience to wait, but the final result always surprises her. She loves it because she never knows what she is going to get because the weather plays a big factor. 

 The hardest part for her when she took a solargraph photo was to leave the pinhole camera in a public place to exposure it for nine days. She was worried for a snowplow running over, or snow getting into the pinhole camera. Since then she love making more winter and summer solargraphs. 

 I really love the way in how she has patience to wait for making and having a photo.

 

Bruno Olivie by Fabiola B.

Bruno Olivie

For Bruno, alternative experience is a term used to characterize the principles of photographic approach. The return to photo history, and to focus on the photo itself. For him the pinhole camera is the simplest way to produce an image with a simple box and a hole, and of course, paper. For him the process of creating an image is complete different. What inspires him to take a photo with a pinhole is viewing the perception of space and time that reveals a traditional photography. 

 He is not really interested in digital photography. He loves the way that he can get a better picture with a pinhole camera than a digital camera. Like we read, he loves the process in which a pinhole photo needs to be made. His images are very interesting. Some of them do not look like were taking by a pinhole camera.

 

 

 

Scott Speck by Fabiola B

Scott Speck

For Scott photography has been his primary art medium. He enjoys working with pinhole cameras. His argument is that a pinhole camera has no lens, and that pinhole photography is a type is lenses photography. He loves the way light entering simply through a small circular hole, to the film, to create the exposure. His pinhole photography has been film based, on either medium or large format. The cameras he use include, zero image camera, and handmade camera. His cameras have very wide field of view. 

 He enjoys taking pictures with his pinhole cameras because they have infinite depth of field. In which nearby objects appear much larger, relative to more distant objects.

 He loses the ability to limit depth of field and exposure times are very long with a pinhole camera. When he shoots outdoors in bright sunshine, exposures are one second, and for interiors like churches, exposures need from thirty to sixty minutes. Longer exposures need the use of a tripod.

 His main subjects of interest are architectures, landscapes, and portraits. He enjoys giving visual presentations on pinhole photography. 

 

 

 

Nancy Breslin by Fabiola B.

Nancy Breslin is a photographer that specializes in black and white images. She takes photos with a plastic pinhole camera. Most of the time, she takes pictures of parks. Sometimes she also works with alternative photographic processes. The process for taking her pinhole camera shots is the next:

First, she uses a hand-held light meter to get a reading. Then she uses a conversion wheel on the back of the camera to determine the time aperture. Then she will now the time she needs to take the picture. Then she uses a table to compensate for reciprocity failure. 

 Any camera while opening the pinhole can blur the image. So she always places her palm in front of the pinhole during opening and closing, and removes her hand after the camera is still. Also, she never hand-hold it for any exposure, because even one second can result a blurry mess. She always carry a mini-tripod with her, but usually she use a table, counter, mailbox, or whatever flat surface is handy to keep the camera still. 

 She also comments that using color film with long exposures the film will shift to different degrees. That is why she prefers to use black and white film, so she does not need to deal with this issue.

 For outdoors such as the photo on the left, she usually not bother meterinf, but will open the shutter for a second or two if its sunny, and 5-10 seconds if it is overcast. For indoor images such as the right photo, she always meter.

Kelsi Frost submits Ollipekka Kangas

Ollipekka Kangas is a photographer that works with ultra long exposures through homemade canister pinholes. He will set up a camera for months at a time. It is interesting to see how he is able to get the pinhole so small to be able to take such long exposures without the entire image being just completely obliterated with light. I enjoy the concept of documenting life through such a long time yet, it will never come out in the picture except for what is truly still. It makes me think back to the first photograph of a person and the only reason they came out was because they were still enough to get a shoe shine and they just happened to be captured.

http://solarigrafia.blogspot.com/

Kelsi Frost submits Celeste Brignac

Celeste Brignac works with a zero2000 6x6 pinhole camera to take her images. They are wonderfully exposed and have great contrast. The camera doesn't have too much of a wide angle as to not distort the images too much. While the beach scenes are a little on the bland side, the clouds and movement of the waves certainly keep my eye entertained for a while. 

http://www.allozcards.com.au/celeste/pinhole_beach/pinhole_beach_10.shtml

Kelsi Frost submits Chris Bucklow

Chris Bucklow uses what would be considered thousands of "cameras" to make his images. He draws the silhouette onto a piece of tinfoil and then pierces the foil thousands of times to create his pinholes. He then uses a large format homemade camera and places the foil on top of color photographic paper and allows the sunlight to expose the paper through the thousands of pinholes. He achieves variation by changing the intensity of the light, the time of day and duration of exposure. While not used in the conventional form of "pinhole photography", essentially, each hole is a record of the sky and sun at the time of exposure and when all put together it forms a silhouette.  This could be pushed into entire scenes based off of strategically placed holes. Oh the possibilities!

http://inspir3d.net/2012/07/13/luminous-solar-pinhole-photography-by-chris-bucklow/