Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day 2005 - April 24, 2005

In a circuitous trek through three or four counties, sixteen shots were taken to see what might happen. The day was chilly, with clouds and occasional drizzle. The incident light varied four stops or more unpredictably and often over very short time spans. Given that and the significant reciprocity failure effects for these two films at exposures longer than a second, the exposure data should not be taken as any great significance! The advance testing paid off; everything worked and produced useable pictures.

The shots were taken with a pinhole lensboard in a 4x5 B&J Press camera used with a 0.018 inch (0.46 mm) at 6.5 inches (165 mm) pinhole to film plane. Films were developed in Kodak HC110, dilution B, for five minutes at about 65 degrees F (18.3 C) and scanned on an Epson 3200 flat bed. The 4 x 5 inch negatives were scanned at 600 pixels per inch (approximately a 2400 x 3000, seven megapixel file) and downsampled to 800 x 6xx here.

The shot from the end of Sand Island, in the Lehigh River at Bethlehem, PA, was chosen to submit to the WPPD site. Ye Olde Photographer feels the shot of the canal, with the reflections, is more interesting as "art," but not everyone has seen a blast furnace!

In the gallery of the year's submissions, YOP's should be here.