Book Attempt
Dry Spell
Sometimes we have dry spells. Sometimes things other than photography are more important. Sometimes the urge to shoot just isn’t there. Sometimes procrastination overcomes other desires.
Sometimes this happens at the same time we are trying to collect work for SoFoBoMo.
Some time becomes another time.
Gemma Pose by: Greg Roberts
Declan Dancing By: Greg Roberts
Time
So I made a medium format pinhole camera 10 days (two weekends) ago and still haven’t shot anything with it. I am not sure my shooting style is suited to the idea of a book in 30 days. I need to make some time for shooting but life keeps getting in the way.
Pinhole Woody By: Greg Roberts
Maybe to get the ball rolling I need to start by just doing some quick still life shots and a couple outdoor shots to verify my exposures etc, so I am confident that when I take the time to make a “real” shot I am ready.
In case you are wondering how the pop can was a part of this: The pinhole was made out of aluminum cut from a pop can. Kitchen scissors are all that is needed to cut a piece of the can into the right size. Once I had a nice piece of thin aluminum I used fine grit sandpaper to make it even a little thinner. The next step was to make a small indentation with a rounded dremel tool tip. Finally the pinhole was opened up by sanding down the indentation, and re-working it with the round tool tip until it just barely opened. By then scanning the pinhole at 4800 dpi on a flatbed scanner I was able to verify that 1) it was round 2) it was 0.43 mm in diameter. In order to get an optimal image for an 81mm focal length I wanted a 0.4mm pinhole, and after 6 attempts decided that 0.43mm was close enough.
Is this it?
I am not sure yet, but this may be the start of my SoFoBoMo project. If so I’ll be kicking off my 30 days within the next two days. Stay tuned for to find out what this means.
SoFoBoMo start?
Hints:
- It is a theme and method
- The book would be a photo book and a howto
- The pop can is there for a reason
If you click on the photo it will take you to the flickr page for this photo which has notes. On flickr float your mouse over the image to see the notes.
