I tried pinholes for the first time last year, with a Harman Titan - I got a few successful shots, but to my mind I didn't really like the effect. Problem is the HT is almost too good, there is no vignette and although soft, not soft enough to look like pinhole, it almost looks like a normal LF wide angle image, with a knackered lens. Too good to be a pinhole, and not good enough to be a conventional image. As it's expensive to fuel with sheet film, I've left it alone a bit.
In the winter, I converted a broken Holga to a pinhole with a needle through a ginger beer can. ran a film through it, and it worked. Again I left it alone for a while, only resurrecting it with a trip to the beach where I made some successful hand held images.
I started to appreciate the long exposures, the way they can show a story of the passage of time, and also the abstraction that results.
My wife has wanted to go to Versailles for ages so we got on the train , and in an incredibly short time we were in Paris. Images of Paris have been done to death, and the idea was to have a break with my wife rather than take pics, so I took along the homebrew holga and some film, and no tripod.
louvre by
donkerdave, on Flickr
some bridge by
donkerdave, on Flickr
versailles2 by
donkerdave, on Flickr
versailles3 by
donkerdave, on Flickr
versailles by
donkerdave, on Flickr
versailles5 by
donkerdave, on Flickr
versailles4 by
donkerdave, on Flickr
versailles6 by
donkerdave, on Flickr
forest by
donkerdave, on Flickr
selfie by
donkerdave, on Flickr
more to come later
