FYI ~ the Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day
Thursday, April 26, 2007 at 10:12AM 
Porch pillar and red truck
Laundry basket and sun light
Pinhole photograph with 90mm lensWorldwide Pinhole Photography Day is fast approaching. Put the date - April, 29 - on your calender, poke a hole in something, mount it on your camera and pinhole away. It's fun, it's easy, it's pinhole-a-riffic.
WPPD is organized (if such a thing is possible) by pinholeday.org. If it strikes your fancy you can send your PPs to them for inclusion in their WPPD gallery. You can PP from WPPD's past on their site.
What I'd like to see is for a bunch of you guys and dolls to give it a shot (or more) and send the results to The Landscapist. I'll start a Pinhole/Alternative Process Forum if there is enough interest. I think that it's good to get out and try something different every now and again.
Come on, give it a try. What do you have to lose except your rigid adherence to photographic perfection?
BTW, re: Pinhole photograph with 90mm lens - the 90mm lens is not on the camera. It's on the porch railing along with a lupe. All photos - 4×5 Type 59 Polaroid.
Reader Comments (4)
I don't know what you were doing with the 90mm and the lupe, but it gave me an idea and I just successfully took some rather interesting shots with my slr through my lupe! pretty cool! Thanks for the idea, whether stolen or not.
Thanks for the reminder! Gonna break out my Treet cam on sunday for some pinhole funness. :)
Do you need special paper? I tried it on my lunch hour, but no image is showing up. I used that paper we put in the printer for photos.
Really love Laundry basket and sun light. The polaroid film plus the pinhole gives it a soft dark and yummy quality. (I need to brush up on my "speaking photography")
You do need special photographic paper. It wonder though, if you left it long enough, like years, if an image would show up? Like leaving your tv screen on too long with the same image.