Topic: One subject, one roll - Bridges over water (in my neighbourhood)

[Ezzie]

Sorry for not posting 6 images, as there are only room for three frames to a roll when doing 6x24

The "Tommasi" 6x24 DIY pinhole camera. FP4+ film in R09 1+50 for 13mins. A first for me, FP4+, and I really like it.

The two first are bridges over the Drammen river, rather short but with quite a substantial flow. Passes through Drammen, my local town. The first image has some swans swimming about, but since the exposure is in excess of 50 seconds, they take on a ghostly appearance

The last a footbridge over a wier, damming up a tributary to the river that eventually passes by my home.


Ghostly swans by Eirik Russell Roberts, on Flickr


Ypsilon by Eirik Russell Roberts, on Flickr


Hammersborgfossen by Eirik Russell Roberts, on Flickr

[ManuelL]

Beautiful photos Eirik! I am always impressed how you manage to compose pictures in the extra wide format!
Is that a swan in the first picture?

[Ezzie]

Thank you Manuel

Yes, indeed, not only one, but 5 or 6. Those streaks that seem to flow through the water are in fact swans not wanting to be immortalised on film. The whiter part where you can discern what looks like a swan feeding off the bank, there is another in front of it on the grass, very protective and wary. Looked like it might want to attack me at some point.

[Bryan]

Those are great Eirik!  They're too wide for my computer screen, I had to go to your flicker page to take it all in.  If I do another pinhole it's going to be a super wide like this. 

[Adam Doe]

Eirik, these are great. Love the wier image.

[jharr]

Very nicely done Eirik. The exposure is very even out to the edges for the most part. That's impressive. Can you link to a picture of the camera or something about its construction?

[Ezzie]

Thank you all.

Yes James, the vignetting is not too bad. However I did design the camera to exhibit some of the attributes normally credited to pinholes, as a completely clean image edge to edge doesn't quite seem right. My 4x5 pinhole has practically no fall-off, and even if the results are technically very good, I feel something is a bit off-kilter.

Info on the 6x24 can be found here: http://www.filmwasters.com/forum/index.php?topic=6870.0