Digital Pinhole Camera
Today I decided to experiment with digital pinhole photography. I won’t explain much about it — mostly because there isn’t much to explain, but if you Google “pinhole photography,” you can learn just about everything you ever needed to know. Suffice it to say that pinhole photography has several distinct properties:
- It’s cheap. This is pretty much always a “Do It Yourself” project. With the exeption of light-tight tape, which I already had.
- The images produced are extremely distinct.
- They are soft-focus
- They have near infinite depth of field (that’s what you get with f/200)
- They utilize a really small aperture, which means a fairly long exposure
- It makes you look weirder than you already are. A DSLR without a lens just looks funny.
If you’re interested in doing this yourself, it’s super easy. I used a technique I found on Zinkwazi.com, but used aluminum foil to make the pinhole puncture. Here is my first attempt (the color separation is post-proccess):
