Experimental Photography - College Assignment

Well, College assignment for this half term is all about experimental stuff. So it involves a bit of pinhole work, some work done on the scanner, timelapse and stopframe could also be in there. Im also lucky enough to have been bought a Lensbaby composer for Christmas by my loveley wife, Emma, so Im going to use that aswell.

To start I thought Id have a go at a bt of pinhole photography as Ive never had the opportunity to do it. For my first attempt I used an oval shaped sweet tin, and with this in hand I went into the studio. Now to shorten the time required I figured it would be better to use more light on the subject so, I switched on 4 studio lights, put them onto full and pointed them at my subject, two coke bottles and a mannequins hand.

This was the negative - it needed reversing in photoshop to create the actual image:

Quite chuffed with this for a first attempt, but it took so long to do with 10 minute exposure time and the need to change the paper between shots in a darkroom. I remembered that my old Diana F+ camera ( plastic lomo style toy camera) had a pin hole setting by removing the lens, so I dug it out, dusted it off and had a go with it:

This was much easier as it takes a standard 120mm film and so although the exposure time was still long, 5-10 minutes depending on weather conditions, it meant I could take several images on one film.

Next time I'll let you know about how the main assignment went.

Steve