Experimental work: Guiness photography

I've been wanting to try digital pinhole photography and having found a spare body cap for my SLR a can of Guinness was required to make the 'lens' (for the non Guinness drinkers, the part of the can you use is the black area so one can will make plenty of pinholes). The third attempt produce a reasonable lens with exposures from about 1.5 - 20 seconds at 100 ISO. I'd heard that you could use the priority settings but on the Olympus this did not work except in bright light so manual and test images were required as I forgot my exposure meter to calibrate the aperture.

The images are on my Apple at the moment but will hopefully get them across to the PC to put on the blog.

Summer - What Summner

Carmi's photographic theme this week is 'Summer'. I would just like to have one this year, not just a few sunny days between May and August 20. Last year we had a proper summer and as my memories of an English Summe: sun, wind sometimes, waves, sand, rocks, camping, messing about on the river, and sitting on cliff tops.

So here is some nostalgic summer from Cornwall ~ maybe I will post something later from one of the sunny days this year...








That feels better...

And More...

Abandoned Mill

Carmi's theme this week is 'Abandoned'. This is found to the North East of Manchester...



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Human Traces

Preconceptions?

beauty ~ 'A' bomb victim

abandoned ~ united

solitude ~ rush hour

'non Chinese' ~ penholder

1990 Brixton ~ racial tension

How much do we take for granted, how much do we presume we know the answers?
(Yes these are out of context & no there is not an answer, just have fun thinking about them)

Naturally Human

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Human

For Thematic Photographic 49 Carmi's subject this week is Human so check it out to see images of people and traces of their existence. You will find plenty of human images in Moments in Time so have a longer browse. Look at images from London ... images that are painful ... those we view through rose-tinted glasses, although the reality was harsh and of course documentary portraits...

Found Yellow

Some golden oldies.. in the autumn sun...

River Stour in Dorset

Shooting Yellow

Carmi's latest challenge is the subject 'yellow', a colour occasionally seen in nature and associated with spring, but more often used when something in the material world has to stand out as a warning.

Natural...

So today, armed with my DSLR and only an old style manual focus lens which gave an effective 100mm f1.2 and threw everything out of focus beautifully and, feeling as if I had turned the clock back over 30 years to photographic college, I went to shoot ‘yellow’. Naturally , because my life would not have been worth living had I left him behind, I was accompanied by our GR Dexter, who was happy to leave me to it most of the time but disapproved with great indignity whenever we stopped (and he was on the lead) by the side of the road.

Rubbish, signs, a solitary metal post, barriers, new gas pipes being installed, speed cameras, cycling jackets and of course those little yellow boxes that the postman used to bring containing those wonderful Kodachrome 25 images....

Throw-away Pizza...


Just don't even think of parking here....


Identity Crisis...

Information...

Purposeless...

Graffiti...


Speed control ....

If water is Blue...
...and Gas is yellow ...

...these are....


... going to cause traffic chaos ...


Recycled scaffolding...


Un-recycled wrapper...

Work in progress...


On pavement parking...


The most recognisable yellow box..

DIY....

Yellow for green travel...


Shooting a single colour concentrates the mind and I only deviated slightly, as you can see on Dexter’s blog. I suppose to be really disciplined I should have taken my pinhole camera and taken one good ‘yellow image’, or even a roll of 12 exposures. Of course with digital we could make any image ‘yellow’…