One of the joys/frustrations of pinhole photography is that you are never 100% sure of what you will and won't get in the frame because a pinhole camera usually doesn't have a viewfinder at all. If it does have a viewfinder it will be a very basic framing guide that may, or may not be anywhere near accurate. With landscape images it's important to get a straight horizon, use a spirit level and make sure your tripod is steady. The following image was taken at Brighton marina in Melbourne (with Melbourne in the distance), Victoria in early 2010. From memory it was a 40 second exposure at 75mm focal length on Ilford FP4+ film. Scanned at full resolution the TIFF file is 352MB... Click on the images below for a larger view.
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| The image above is very slightly cropped from the original scan of a 5x4 negative. 5x4 is in inches in case you weren't sure. Each negative is 13 times larger than a 35mm negative and as the following images will show there is an awesome amount of detail in a negative of this size. Click on the image and you will get a bigger view. Note that the image hasn't had the dust spots or marks cleaned up nor any adjustments made to the contrast/levels. |
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| The image above has been cropped from the first image and cleaned of spots, dust and marks from the negative. It has also had the contrast and levels adjusted so that there is more detail visible in the clouds. |
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| The image above is a different crop from the original with the same adjustments. This crop is a 6x17 ratio panorama and looks nice printed up large. |
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| This is a 6x12 format crop from the centre of the image. Notice how at this size the film grain is visible and the details are very soft. I love the image like this as it looks very "dreamy" and has a certain old fashioned mood... |
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