Take a needle, any needle. punch holes in disposable pie tins. Tape the hole over a small hole in a cardboard box about 20" long. In a darkroom under darkroom light, tape photographic paper in the box opposite the pinhole.. Tape the box closed and put it into a black garbage bag. Tape the bag to the box so only the pinhole shows. Put tape over the pinhole. Put the box where you want it a little before sunset. Take the tape off the pinhole. Leave it until morning light is pretty bright and the sun is up (if you can see the sun). Develop the paper. Repeat the next night if necessary to correct exposure, putting it out earlier or leaving it out later depending on what you want more or less exposed. With exposures this long the exposure time is much less critical, but make at least 1-2 hour adjustments. You'll be surprised how good the images are. ----- Original Message ----- From: elenab...@aol.com To: pinhole-discussion@p at ??????? Sent: Friday, December 29, 2000 10:01 PM Subject: [pinhole-discussion] hello everyone
Hello! Im Elena and have been experimenting with photography for just a bit now. I really had no connection with the fancy camera that I received for my birthday last year. its too tech-tastic. Its not for me. So my friend John introduced me to a lubitel. I fell in love with it and ive have been blowing my own mind with it. Its a very primitive way to record images. So I had an idea for trying some pinhole photos. So heres my idea, now dig. I want to do some long exposures, IM talking like 24 hour exposures. I wanted to make several small crude box pinhole cameras and tape them up all over the city, leave them overnight and go and collect them in the morning. unfortunately I dont know a thing about pinhole exposures and am about to do some experimenting. I have a few questions about it. How far does the actual pinhole have to be from the film.? How long can I expose for.? how big should the pinhole be? If you got answers, I got an ear. thanks, Elena
