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the Mercat Building
Glasgow - another pinhole effort. Not as tight on the framing as I'd hoped but not bad given the lack of viewfinder....
Ok, so I've submitted this to the PCA group under Leading Lines. I'd hoped to get out to take something specifically for the assignment but with one thing and another (and me getting my dates wrong) I just haven't been able to. I did take one on friday but the film's not back yet.... This shot was taken in the timeframe and when I took it I was definitely trying to make use of the steel structure in the foreground as a leading line, so I guess it qualifies, despite me not knowing about the assignment at the time!
EXIF (sort of):
Kodak porta 160VC
6x12 format pinhole camera
0.24mm pinhole (equivalent to f250)
Scanned on an Epson 4990 in the house and processed in photoshop
Somewhere around a 4 minute exposure
I've been enjoying messing around with the pinhole over the last couple of weeks but haven't really tried much in colour till now and I've not got my head around the colour shifts from the long exposures. or the reciprocity failure for the colour film yet (conflicting info online, so I'm just guessing).
This is also the first time I've tried a strong foreground interest so close to the camera. Accurate framing with no viewfinder of any sort is, well... trickier than I thought! I've framed this slightly lower than I hoped. The other thing I'm finding with the pinhole is that it's changed the way I compose when I use it: with such a strong vignette and such heavy blur as you move from the centre of the shot, the standard rule of thirds has gone out the window.
The white dot in the sky is the moon, which looked rather more impressive when I was there!
the Mercat Building
Glasgow - another pinhole effort. Not as tight on the framing as I'd hoped but not bad given the lack of viewfinder....
Ok, so I've submitted this to the PCA group under Leading Lines. I'd hoped to get out to take something specifically for the assignment but with one thing and another (and me getting my dates wrong) I just haven't been able to. I did take one on friday but the film's not back yet.... This shot was taken in the timeframe and when I took it I was definitely trying to make use of the steel structure in the foreground as a leading line, so I guess it qualifies, despite me not knowing about the assignment at the time!
EXIF (sort of):
Kodak porta 160VC
6x12 format pinhole camera
0.24mm pinhole (equivalent to f250)
Scanned on an Epson 4990 in the house and processed in photoshop
Somewhere around a 4 minute exposure
I've been enjoying messing around with the pinhole over the last couple of weeks but haven't really tried much in colour till now and I've not got my head around the colour shifts from the long exposures. or the reciprocity failure for the colour film yet (conflicting info online, so I'm just guessing).
This is also the first time I've tried a strong foreground interest so close to the camera. Accurate framing with no viewfinder of any sort is, well... trickier than I thought! I've framed this slightly lower than I hoped. The other thing I'm finding with the pinhole is that it's changed the way I compose when I use it: with such a strong vignette and such heavy blur as you move from the centre of the shot, the standard rule of thirds has gone out the window.
The white dot in the sky is the moon, which looked rather more impressive when I was there!