After finishing my pinhole camera I decided to try it out.  I’d done lots of research on pinhole camera’s on the internet and had a rough idea of exposure, but needed to take a few shots to get an idea of how my camera performed.

I took a carriage clock outside and tried taking lots of shots with different exposures from 1s to 20s.  Of course I couldn’t see results straight away as I then needed to take the photographic paper into college and use the dark room to develop them.  To compare I then took a picture of the clock on my DSLR.  The final couple of shots on this post are just some I was trying.  I love the vintage look.

A selection of my pinhole clock shots:

Clock 5. ? Seconds

Clock 2. ? Seconds

CLock 1. ? Seconds

DSLR clock shot to compare, obviously it looks a lot better, but i’m still very pleased with the pinhole camera:

Desaturated image taken on DSLR. 100 ISO, f8, 1/200

A couple of other shots of the house and garden.  My biggest challenge was changing ‘film’.  My camera can only take one sheet of photographic paper at a time.  So after every shot I had to go into a pitch black room and swap the paper for a new sheet.  The cloudy patchy look of the image could be due to me accidentally expose the photographic paper to light as I was transferring it back into it’s box.  The dark half circles are the drawing pins that were holding the paper in.  Any small black marks are probably dirt on the paper.

Back of the house

View from the back bedroom window.