Category Archives: Inspiration

Inspiration

Get Inspired – Pinhole Seesaw

Editor’s note: The daily pinhole photos are curated and shared to inspire and elevate the pinhole photography artform. Do you have a photo you’d like considered? Tell us about it.

Today’s featured pinhole photo will bring out the kid in you.

Pinhole Seesaw
[singlepic id=170 w=600]Pinhole Seesaw, ©Darren Constantino 2015[/singlepic]

To make this fun pinhole photo, Darren Constantino mounted his camera to a seesaw as his sister Sharon rode the other side. The result is a wonderful example of how the constraints of pinhole photography can drive us to dig deeper in our creative psyche.

To catch more of Darren’s work, check his Flickr page.

 

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Get Inspired – Prison Through a Pinhole

Editor’s note: The daily pinhole photos are curated and shared to inspire and elevate the pinhole photography artform. Do you have a photo you’d like considered? Tell us about it.

Today’s featured pinhole photo is a beautiful confinement.

Prison Through a Pinhole
[singlepic id=169 w=600]Prison Through a Pinhole, ©Mark Doxey 2015[/singlepic]

To nab this photo, Mark Doxey actually snuck into this derelict prison in Armagh, Ireland. By donning some hi-vis construction clothes and a hard hat, he was able to get by security by looking the part. It’s a risky maneuver, but appears to have paid off! (ahem, our lawyers want to note that the editors of ƒ/D officially do not condone trespassing.)

More of Mark’s work can be found on Flickr.

 

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Get Inspired – Bull Island

Editor’s note: The daily pinhole photos are curated and shared to inspire and elevate the pinhole photography artform. Do you have a photo you’d like considered? Tell us about it.

Today’s featured pinhole photo is a gentle view on a sunny day.

Bull Island
[singlepic id=168 w=600]Bull Island, Reality So Subtle, Kodak Ektar, ©Fran Morrin 2015[/singlepic]

Using a Reality So Subtle wide angle camera pointed at the sun, Fran Morrin captured this warm scene on Bull Island. It’s an image that stirs memories of perfect summer days with nothing to worry about.

More of Fran’s work can be found on Flickr.

 

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Get Inspired – 10_4.5_p

Take in today’s featured pinhole in a place of quiet beauty.

10_4.5_p
[singlepic id=167 w=600]10_4.5_p, Zero Image 4×5, FOMA fomapan 100, ©De Ferschter 2015[/singlepic]

De Ferschter made this quiescent scene using a Zero Image 4×5 with a single frame added for a focal length of 50mm, with Fomapan 100 film. The way these trees stand apart, like 5 good friends, makes for such a strong composition.

You can find more of De Ferschter’s work on Flickr.

 

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Get Inspired – Atlantic II

Today’s featured pinhole image is a calming shade of blue.

Atlantic II
[singlepic id=166 w=600]Atlantic II, Twinings Tea tin cam, Kodak Ektar ©Artūras Meškauskas 2015[/singlepic]

Artūras Meškauskas, a Lithuanian photographer from the city of Panevezys, made this wonderful image with his homemade pinhole camera that he fashioned from a Twinings Tea tin and expired Ektar 100. I’ve got to say his appears to be the best tea tin camera I’ve seen. This scene was captured in 2014 on an autumn holiday in Gran Canaria.

You can find more of Artūras’s work on Flickr and Facebook.

 

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Get Inspired – Crazy ’bout a Mercury

Today’s featured pinhole photo absorbs us in a time gone by.

Crazy ’bout a Mercury
[singlepic id=165 w=500]Crazy ’bout a Mercury, Zero Image 6×9, Portra 160, ©Collin Orthner 2015[/singlepic]

Collin Orthner made this wonderful image while traveling through Alberta. It has a great backstory from Collin himself:

This old Mercury truck was found on an old farm south of Brooks, Alberta, near Rolling Hills. It was a creepy place too! My travelling partner Michael Chesworth went exploring the old farmhouse and discovered old bank deposit slips from the early fifties,  and an old shot up television that had only the original dial that let you choose one of thirteen channels. I remember being a kid watching our old B&W TV that had this same sort of dial, unfortunately, we couldn’t even make use of the dial as we had the luxury of getting only one channel! So, if we didn’t like what was on we were back outside riding our bikes or playing hockey on the local rink, depending on the season of course. Anyways, back to this farm, there was no sign anywhere at the start of the dirt laneway indicating “No Trespassing” so we felt OK checking it out. This truck was one of three in the yard and the one I liked making images of the best. I made a lot of close-ups of the patina of the metal with my digital camera, but really felt a pinhole image would add a sense of being in a dream and also would give some indication of how I was feeling in this farmyard. It really makes you think about who it was that lived there and why it was left in the state it was. Someone had a full life here and we only got to see a few remnants of it. I would have to think it wasn’t a creepy existent either, but just the way things have gone since whomever it was departed, left us feeling a bit unsettled. This image was made with a ten minute exposure with my camera mounted to my tripod and awkwardly arranged just inside the cab of the truck. I thought my meter was out to lunch indicating such a long exposure, but here you are, and it was rather dark in the shadows of the cab. An hour or so later we hit the highway to a new destination still heading further south.

More of Collin’s work can be found on his personal website.

 

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Get Inspired – Archaeologists at the Rhynie Woman Dig

Gather around for today’s featured pinhole photo.

Archaeologists at the Rhynie Woman Dig
[singlepic id=164 w=600]Archaeologists at the Rhynie Woman Dig, ©Chris Bird 2015[/singlepic]

Chris Bird made this image during the week long Archaeological dig organised by the Rhynie Woman artists collective In the village of Rhynie in Aberdeenshire. He asked the archaeologists to gather around a pinhole camera made from an empty sweet tin containing a paper negative that was place on the floor. The group managed to stay still for the five minute exposure – must be something about the patience required to be an archaeologist.

More of Chris’s work can be found on Flickr, Facebook, or his personal site. Or you can find him on Twitter.

 

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Get Inspired – WWPD

Today’s featured pinhole photo is a ghostly self portrait.

WWPD
[singlepic id=163 w=600]WWPD, Eight Banners, Portra 160, ©Paul Griffin[/singlepic]

Paul Griffin made this image in the bottom of an abandoned swimming pool using his Eight Banners 6×9 loaded with Kodak Portra 160. As indicated by the title, he made this for WWPD. He made this image using what he refers to as “Photoshop in camera”: overlapping the 6×9 exposures as he moves through the 120 roll. This gives him a slight bit of unpredictability while also providing a fair bit of creative choice in which images to use.

You can find more of Paul’s work on his Flickr page.

 

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Get Inspired – Kaleidoscope

Today’s featured pinhole photo dazzles in reflections and cuts of light.

Kaleidoscope
[singlepic id=162 w=600]Kaleidoscope, ©Angel Rueda 2015[/singlepic]

Angel Rueda made this wonderful capture with his pinhole camera leveled into the sun and perfectly aligned with the symmetry of the scene. The effect is an almost overwhelming sense of light and warmth.

More of Angel’s photos can be found on Flickr.

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Get Inspired – An Abandoned Forest

Today’s featured pinhole photo brings a sense of how deep those still waters run

An Abandoned Forest
[singlepic id=161 w=600]An Abandoned Forest, 4×5 pinhole camera, TMAX 100, ©Chien Wenwei 2015[/singlepic]

Chien Wenwei made this moody capture in Nantou, Taiwan of a stand of trees that have been overtaken by the floodwaters; with the absolute stillness of the water adds to the feeling of abandonment.

More of Chien’s work can be found on Flickr or Facebook.