Pinhole

Made a couple of pinhole lenses out of body caps & end caps. The short one - just the body cap - is equivalent to ~ 46mm. This photo is from the long one @ ~75mm.

twoshadows wrote in post #19091898
Made a couple of pinhole lenses out of body caps & end caps. The short one - just the body cap is equivalent to ~ 40mm. This photo is from the long one @ ~70mm.

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Very interesting image and technique

Thanks. The technique takes a ton of light. I don't have strobes, but 4-580EXIIs aren't nearly enough. The pose is, lol, well, my reaction to posing. Nine years of self portraits. It hurts to model and I'm tired. I have 2 models working for me now but covid and circumstance keep getting in the way of shoots. So, I'm the test dummy...

I do like this pic though.

Kindness,

~Julia

Julia-
Thanks for the information, I was wondering how you were lit. Whatever the reason for posing, it came out well

Interesting effect, Julia.

I've seen pinhole images before, but only as an experiment for people
who ask themselves if it can be done. This is the first example I've seen
where a scene was deliberately composed for the process.

To me, the trick to lighting this scene was raising the ambient high enough that I could use flashes for fill. Flashes alone were not strong enough to do the trick, so i used four led panels as well. Thus, the 2 second exposure.

I first thought of using pinhole photography for my daytime street work. I managed to get decent shutter speeds but only at extremely high ISOs, the color was awful and black and white was worse as my subjects were in the shade and buried in the shadows.