Pinhole

One of the great* things about working at a high-end animation studio is that in order to get there, you have to be a bit obsessive, and this tendency can bleed outside one's professional interests, so you are surrounded by people with all sorts of interesting obsessions. One of my colleagues is passionate for pinhole photography, and as nearly everyone is on downtime at the moment he led an introductory class on it. I signed up mostly because I wanted to play with developing chemicals, which I had never done before, but had a great deal of fun at every stage in the process. I took three pictures, each on a piece of photo paper curled inside one of those little round tins in which you get cookies from your neighbours at Christmas. The way the light falls on the curved paper gives a distorted look to the image which is kind of cool in a weird way. My photos turned out much better than I was expecting. In the order they were taken:


15 sec exposure, 9am, clear sunshine


1 min exposure, 8:30 am, fog – I nudged the can partway through the exposure so there's a bit of a double image


c. 3 min exposure, 8:45 am, fog
I got three more tins which I can develop Friday but – exciting as it would be to turn my bathroom into a darkroom – I think that'll have to be the end of it for now, as I simply cannot take on another hobby at this time. (No, really.)

*if you are one of them ... I imagine it would get on the nerves of most 'normal' people.