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While I was away in Somerset recently I left my little Puck pinhole camera on the windowsill of my study, capturing life on our street over the course of six days. It uses photographic paper to capture the scene, so lots of light is needed. Fortunately, the sun came out from behind the clouds during my absence so, while people walking down the street are invisible, you can clearly see the path of the sun across the sky.
Photo taken 1- 6 February 2023.
One of the quirks of film photography is that delay between taking pictures and seeing the developed negatives. I’m able to minimise this by developing my black and white film at home now, but colour films still have to be sent off.
Over Christmas I popped a roll of colour film in one of my pinhole cameras to take some festive long exposures and I finally completed the roll a couple of weeks ago. The negatives arrived back while I was away in Somerset so I’ve only just had an opportunity to scan them and see how my experiments turned out. Two of them were long exposures of our festive meals, on Christmas Day and Boxing Day.
I took a pair of similar photos as we unwrapped our Christmas presents on the two days - one from a high vantage point and one from a much lower perspective.
My final experiment features some of the baubles on the Christmas tree, albeit with a twist. I made a double exposure, with a change of composition between the two shots so the final image shows both views. Making double exposures is an unpredictable affair, but I’m pleased with the way this one has turned out - enough to encourage me to have a go with some different subjects in future.
Photos taken 25 & 26 December 2022
