trying to reduce the internal glare... flic.kr/p/eewMUK bathroomcam pinhole image in progress @pinholeday #pinhole #worldwide #say
— crunchy footsteps (@crunchyfeet) April 27, 2013

in progress......
WWPD 2013 exposure in progress....
Because the bathroomcam requires about 16 hours to expose photographic
paper (figuring in a bunch of reciprocity error) I started a WWPD
exposure this morning. It'll go 8 hours today, and 8 hours
tomorrow...ending around the end of Worldwide Pinhole Day.
On the left is a photo of the bathroomcam's subject, chilling out in
the backyard. On the right is inside the bathroomcam, image in
progress.
I'm sure glad that we have a second bathroom! (-:
Happy WWPD!
Started my WWPD exposure at 8am: the bathroomcam has a 16 hour exposure! (2 days) #pinhole #day @pinholeday
— crunchy footsteps (@crunchyfeet) April 27, 2013
After my morning coffee, it's time to transform the bathroom into a giant pinhole camera for Worldwide Pinhole Day! @pinholeday
— crunchy footsteps (@crunchyfeet) April 27, 2013
The bathroomcam image completely fogged! What a bummer. But here is a paintcancam rendition of our catering to George, during his very arduous photo shoot. The heat and lack of food were pretty hard to bear! (-:
This is my offocial Worldwide Pinhole Day image for 2013. Paintcan camera, paper negative, 58-sec exposure, developed in Caffenol C.
Here is a comment I left for this post on Flickr, after my pinhole pals there gave their suggestions on what I could do to have a successful image with the bathroomcam:
Thank you all, for the really nice comments on this image, as well as your thoughts on how to change things for future bathroomcam exposures! I appreciate you guys so much!
Judith- Thanks so much for that link to the
article on The Great Picture. I had watched
a "making-of" video of this project
several years ago, when it was on Google
Video. After Google Video went away, I could
not find it out if it was migrated to You
Tube, because I forgot the name of the
project, and my search words didn't turn it
up for me. Thanks to your article, I
searched You Tube, and found the video! It's
well-worth watching, for anyone interested:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc-79vOzshw&list= PL27-EmZ05nT...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc-79vOzshw&list= PL27-EmZ05nT...
Rob Johnson, one of the photographers of this
project, was interviewed in this video. If
you go to 10:40 in the video, he explains the
method for determining the exposure, and
reveals aperture size and focal length. Like
Judith said above, the aperture size was 6mm,
and the exposure was only 35 minutes! He
said that their initial exposure estimates
were 6-7 days, but they came up with 35
minutes after doing some test exposures.
The emulsion they used was Liquid Light,
which (in my limited experience) has about
the same ISO as paper. So perhaps I can
translate this experience directly to mine.
If you go to 11:16 in the video, you can see
that they rigged up a "baffle"
system like you talked about, Howard. It
boxed the pinhole in around the sides and
top, so that the light just shined on the
film plane, and not onto the ceiling and
walls. This limited the amount of stray
light inside the camera. That's an excellent
idea, Howard, thanks!
rt- that is also an excellent idea of
flashing the paper first, to reduce exposure
time.
Vince- Thanks for telling me about your
experience of photographing the camera
obscura image at the World of Illusions
Centre. (that sounds like a great place to
visit!) It gives me hope that i can do it,
too. (-: It's goo to know how long your
exposures were, too.
So I'll try it again with all your
suggestions, and do some test strips before
exposing the image. I'll keep you
posted......
rt- Is there really a Cinco de Mayo Pinhole
Day? (-: Are you participating? That does
sound like a good day to try this again! It
shouldn't be hard to secure a sombrero for
George in this town. (-:
Sophie, Donna and Ned- thanks for your fun
comments about this image! It was fun to
cater to George to make this picture.
SO I'm off to make the improvements...in time for CInco de Mayo Pinhole Day!
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