Camera Labs

I closed the shutter on a beer-can pinhole camera today that I opened on 7th September 2009. This is looking towards my southern horizon so we can see the Sun getting lower and lower in the sky (it will be at its lowest on December 21st when I shall put out another 4 pinhole cameras).

It took me a good ten minutes to work out what the object is middle/bottom - it is in fact the New Forest Observatory (fibreglass dome) and the bright bits are the hinges/locks on the door. The bright bit on the top might be where I turn the light on in the evening when I'm out there working.

Not bad for a first effort but will try to do a lot better next time.



Greg

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Nexstar 11 GPS, 2 x Sky 90, M25C, MaximDL, Photshop CS3, Noel Carboni's Photoshop actions, 7 foot Pulsar fibreglass dome, Canon 40D, 100mm macro lens, 28-200mm zoom lens, 17-55mm f#2.8 zoom lens, 100-400mm zoom lens, 1.4x converter, 2x converter.
http://www.newforestobservatory.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/12801949@N02/

Definitely interesting. I'm always amazed they're not over-exposed.

Maybe it doesn't work that way, but I thought the static parts of the scene would be more defined.

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Canon DSLRs: 7D, 5D2, 1D, 600D, 450D full spectrum, 300D IR mod
Lenses: EF 35/2, 50/1.8, 85/1.8, 135/2+SF, 28-80 V, 70-300L, 100-400L, TS-E 24/3.5L, MP-E 65, EF-S 15-85 IS
3rd party: Zeiss 2/50 makro, Samyang 8mm fisheye, Sigma 150 macro, 120-300 f/2.8 OS, Celestron 1325/13
Tinies: Sony HX9V.

Wow! Thats so awesome! I wanna try this... Do you know of any online tutorials anywhere?

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Canon 40D + 70-200mm f/2.8L IS + 50mm f/1.8
Manfrotto 055CX3 + 496RC2
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I think it got nudged Popo, possibly by the window cleaners

Also, like an idiot I had the beer-can in the WRONG orientation, it should be long axis vertical if you want to try this.

To see how this is done look up Justin Quinnell and his amazing pinhole photography.

Greg

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Nexstar 11 GPS, 2 x Sky 90, M25C, MaximDL, Photshop CS3, Noel Carboni's Photoshop actions, 7 foot Pulsar fibreglass dome, Canon 40D, 100mm macro lens, 28-200mm zoom lens, 17-55mm f#2.8 zoom lens, 100-400mm zoom lens, 1.4x converter, 2x converter.
http://www.newforestobservatory.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/12801949@N02/