After a lot of umming and ahhing and then having a final big blow out argument with myself today, I've decided to change my entry at the eleventh hour.
I am a Pentax fiend, but one of my cameras is not a Pentax. It's a
pinhole camera I made myself from an 8" square cardboard box, a lot of card, paint, tape and glue, and a homemade pinhole. I call her Button because of the buttons I've sewn into her sides to keep her lid and lens cap in place.
She takes 5"x7" photographic paper to capture the image, and has two settings for the paper negative. The paper can sit flat at the back of the camera or half way down the camera for a wider angle setting.
I develop the paper negatives at home and then do a contact print. But before I make prints, I like to see what they will look like and to get such a digital image, I photograph the paper negative and invert it in photoshop. I then crop it and get rid of any shadows at the corners using Lightroom (oh for a scanner!). This gives a really good idea of how a print will look before using up photographic paper. This image is one such inversion (rather than a scan of a contact print).
I love Button and she is certainly testament to what detail can be captured with no lens at all and no viewfinder. The exposure is guesswork (this was 32 1/2 minutes indoors), the framing is guesswork... This picture has inspired me to try out a lot more ideas since, and it will always have a special place in my heart.
Last edited by Pixietoria; 05-21-2014 at 04:40 PM.
Reason: I wanted to change my submission to a different photograph.
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