Pinhole Bones #1...doubled
well I’ve been really busy in the darkroom with this semesters photography students. We’ve been building pinhole cameras out of all sorts of things and then printing out the negatives in the wet darkroom. Then these images will be scanned and outputted as 1 metre square digital image. So from the most basic form of photographic capture to the top end of digital output…. it’s a fabulous project and the students really love it to bit….
So far in the group we have cameras built out of nappybuckets, toilet roll holders, letter boxes, teapots and one intrepid fellow has made a reasonably viable camera out of a car wheel….. no joke it’s a sight to behold as he rolls in around the campus.
Anyway I usually just stick to making my cameras out of old photographic paper boxes and they seem to work well for me. The image here is a double exposed pinhole shot of a lifesized human skeleton that the students use in the drawing and painting classes.
The aperture…. or the pinhole…. or the lens if you like …. is a massive .5 of one millimetre. The exposure time was 15 seconds on a bright clear sunny day. The negative is a whole sheet of 10×8 inch blackandwhite photo paper and that has been contact printed on to another 10×8 inch sheet of paper and then I’ve scanned both negative and positive and placed them onto the one page so I can upload them here together.
So volia….. pinhhole photography rules…...:)
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aglaia b
shaaaaazaaaaammmmm!
down to the rawest form!
love this so much juilee, from the positive/negative black and white, to the strong composition, awesome double exposure, symmetrical layout, description and very modern looking creative piece of art!
a final 1m2 digital print to boot! WOW!
TOP STUFF! ;-) xox
Juilee Pryor replied
Hey thanks aglaia…. great comment… and it’s been such a lot of fun doing this… analouge has so much juice left in it…... I do lots with liquid light as well and that also is just such fun to play around with…. so tricky and all that but so much fun when it works….... :)
Mel Brackstone
Wow, what she said :)
Juilee Pryor replied
hi there Mel….. and hey thanks….. I get so caught up with ‘serious’ images that sometimes its good to remember that I actually really truly love the craft of photography. And yesterday I had such fun with my various pinhole cameras that it’s given me a whole new lease of life here as well….... which has got to be a good thing…....:)
aglaia b
LOL, you’re doing an awesome job juilee. i’m so getting my little ones into this stuff hehehe. yes i know about the tricky, however when you get it right, it’s such a high! ;-) xox
Juilee Pryor replied
I so know what you mean…. when the dear students are pulling out their pink and purple dreadlocks with the frustration of there not being any control Z function to analouge … I tell them…. hells bells if it was easy then everybody would do it and then it would be even harder to be fabulous at it…I mean who wants to be good at doing easy stuff as a concept to aspire to…..:)
AndyGii
I’ve seen some amazing pictures come out of pinhole cameras but never anything like this. Truly unique
Juilee Pryor replied
thanks Andy…. I think the image has more impact as I’ve got the negative and the postive together so you can really see how that works….. so glad you like it though…..:)
steen
noice work julie
Juilee Pryor replied
why thanks kind sir…:) how’s the battle to save the beach going btw?
Trevor Fellows
I Agree awesome.
Trev.
Juilee Pryor replied
thanks heaps Trevor… it was a lot of fun making these shots yesterday…...:)
H M Bascom
Pinhole photography rules!
Juilee Pryor replied
Ya for simplicity and hurray for pinhole cameras…......:)
aglaia b
oh juilee!
you’re WONDERFUL! ;-) xox
Cathryn Swanson
Cool stuff juilee.
Juilee Pryor replied
hey thanks Chanel2…. more mad analouge stuff…... glad you like it though….....:)
Helene Kippert
Very cool juilee :o)
Juilee Pryor replied
thanks Helene I had fun with these…..:)
butchart
might be my favorite… the purity(?) of this one…..........b
Juilee Pryor replied
thanks butch… I know what you mean… this one is my fav too. something about the head being side on or something … not sure…. but the shapes are nice in it and its kinda of weird and gothic as well so that’s nice…......:)
steen
hey Julie…thanks for asking…we are gathering quite a following…over 1400 signatures to date on the petition…we just had ex world professional surfer Michael Lowe join us…the fishing alliance party is about to join us aswell…so we are still gaining momentum. It will depend if the local community keeps getting behind us..
fingers crossed and lotsa hard work
steeno
shanghaiwu
these are all amazing/brilliant work
Juilee Pryor replied
hi shanghaiwu…. thanks heaps…. it was so much fun to make these pictures
berndt2
Very cool stuff!!
styles
Lovely image! How far away from the paper was the pinhole? What size was the box?
Juilee Pryor replied
hi styles… the paper was about 5 or 6 cm’s from the pinhole which is why the image is so concentated in the centre and then it blows out around the edges… and the box was an old 10×8 inch photopaper box so that was the size paper I used as well. and the camera was only about 5 to 10 cm’s away from the subject…. so it’s reallly wide angled…. glad you like the picture…....:)
LostGod
A car wheel…HaHaHa!
Juilee Pryor replied
yes it’s all set up inside the hubcap bit and he just rolls it around…. he was the coolest but then on friday one girl turned up with a corregated tin water tank on the back of her ute and dragged it of into the scupture bay to do some modifications to it. She’s putting like a door in it so she can set it up and get in there and take the photo and then get out and into the darkroom….... no joke it’s the most insane camera I’ve ever seen…. we don’t know if it’s going to work yet but fingers crossed…....:)
LostGod
Your classes must be so much fun…full of crazy people.
Including you…of course :P
Juilee Pryor replied
hey I’m normal ….it’s the students that are crazy….. mind you the classes have become overrun since I started there a couple of years ago…..there is a quiet little analouge revolution going on out there….and that’s all good as far as I’m concerned…....:)
LostGod
Nothing wrong about returning to the roots :)
Rene Hales
Great! Thanks too for sharing infomation on your process and what the students are doing. I have a digital pinhole lens cap that I made. Makes me want to pull it out and see what happens.—Rene
petersargison
This is totally genius. I would love this on a t-shirt and a large print. More??
Juilee Pryor replied
hi peterargison… and thanks…. a work of genius is maybe a little be much to be honest but hey it’s making me smile…I haven’t had this one printed up as a teeshirt but it wouldn’t be real hard to do…. I’ve had this one bones 3 printed up as a teeshirt though and it looks fabulous…. I wear it loads and loads…. and considering it’s a pinhole photo … the depth and clarity of the print is outstanding….. so go for it…... :)
KayDawson
amazing! Pinhole photography is great, its interesting reading about how you did it too!
Juilee Pryor replied
hi KeyDawson and thanks…. yes pinhole photography is just so much fun… frustrating as hell and all that too but just sooooo good when it works….... :)