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Introduction:
There is no way of predicting the outcome. One has a
child like anticipation when developing a negative and feels the need to look at
the result for hours. How could one have known that a sun-flare would be
circular, that river water blends to a soft, fog-like texture? Foreground and
background perception is obscured. There is no certainty of which details will
be captured and which won't. A tree's branches have a life of their own,
blending with one another and the sky. When using color negative you will find
that colors may turn out to be more vivid in one case and pastel in another.
The Pinhole's nature of diffraction may cause you to capture a rainbow where
there isn't one. The "imitation pinhole" look which a lot of music videos have
used over the past years to achieve "motion picture pinhole" (fish-eye lenses as
well as an added vignette in post-production) just does not come close to the
reality of an actual Pinhole mounted in front of a Bolex or a
Bell&Howell.
What is Pinhole Photography?
Pinhole Photography is the origin of Photography. Before there were lenses, people
used to build cameras based on the principal of diffracting light through a
small hole. All you need is a little box, a needle to punch a hole and a few
sheets of photographic paper. Pinhole Photography is known for it's distinct
style: Vignetting edges, great depth of field, blurry motion, distortion, soft
focus. All of which are characteristics that every major camera manufacturer is
proud to have eliminated, but Adobe PhotoShop has re-introduced in their effects
palette ....
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