Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day - 26 April 2015.

This year we again used the 8x10 Pinhole Camera, built in 2013. Again we used Fuji Super HR-T Green sensitive X-Ray film. This is much less expensive than regular photographic film, but does have some properties that make its use somewhat challenging.

Ye Olde Photographer visited a spot near by where he has done some lens-based photography. The subject is a plate girder railroad bridge over the Schuylkill River in Oaks, Pennsylvania, upstream from where the Perkiomen Creek joins the Schuylkill. The bridge was part of the Reading Railroad Perkiomen Branch and while it still has track on it, it has not been used for a decade or two. There are trees more than an inch in diameter growing up between the ties on the land-based approach track.

It was a relatively nice day with some occasional clouds one could just wait out. The access was from various points along or near approaches to the Schuylkill River Trail near the Expo Center in Oaks.

Except for the bottom row, the pinhole shots seen here were digitized by laying the 8x10 negatives on a light box and photographing them with YOP's Canon G15. The resulting files were cropped and inverted to get a positive image. YOP has contact printed a selection of three of the images which he felt were the better ones, including the image submitted to the WPPD site. (It is always gratifying to verify the process without resorting to electronics!)

YOP's official WPPD submission should appear at this link.