Experimental Image Making

Fun with cameras, some with lenses

Experimental Image Making

Digital cameras are fine for commercial work where you need to know you've got the image for the client, but they can be too clinical, too perfect. Slowing the process down, randomness, huge expense on film, to get zero results, are some of the joys of using analogue cameras, or a cardboard box. I mix things up by using a range of purchased (I know the f stop) pinhole cameras and homemade boxes, where things get really random. Coupled with antique cameras, a Leica IIb, Pocket Ensign and various Russian models, Zorki's and Zenith's. Developing and printing your own images brings in another dimension.


See more under-exciting pinhole photographs from Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day (WPPD).

Pinhole images shot on Zero Image camera Pinhole images shot on Zero Image camera
A Lecia IIIb Camera

Durham Cathedral

Zero Image 100 medium format pinhole camera. Shot on Ilford FP4.

M6

Zero Image 100 medium format pinhole camera. Shot on Agfa Optima.
Pinhole images shot on Zero Image camera Pinhole images shot on homemade camera
Zero Image pinhole camera

Days out

Jazz and a trip to the seaside.

Stereoscopic car trip

A trip in the country. Shot on a homemade stereoscopic pinhole camera, a wallpaper steamer box, two toilet roles and plenty of duct tape.
Pinhole panorama of Sheffield shot on Zero Image camera Pinhole panorama of Sheffield shot on Zero Image camera

Sheffield Station

Panorama of Sheffield Station and fountain made up of six overlapping pinhole images. 2 Second exposure on each image.

Peace Gardens

Panorama of Sheffield Perace Gardens made up of six overlapping pinhole images. 1 Second exposure on each image.

Pinhole


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Cyanotypes - Buildings


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Cyanotypes - Various


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Cyanotypes - Derelict


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