Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day 2015

WPPD 1, 2015

WPPD 2, 2015

WPPD 3, 2015

WPPD 4, 2015

WPPD 5, Family Portrait, 2015

WPPD 6, 2015

Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day was on April 26th this year.  Here are some of my photos from the day.  All were shot with a Zero 2000 medium format pinhole camera.

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Holga Tintypes

Las Setas, 2015

Owl Cat, 2015

Tulip, 2015

Decided to take a break from the Brownie camera tintypes and try a few on the Holga.  Good thing the aluminum plates I had cut for the brownie fit perfectly in the back of the Holga camera.  These were all shot on a Holga 120 Panoramic camera using wet plate collodion (Old Workhorse formula).

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Wet Plate Pinhole

Balcony, 2015
Wet Plate Collodion Pinhole, 5 minute exposure

Self Portrait, 2015
Wet Plate Collodion Pinhole, approx. 4 minute exposure

Finally enough light for more wet plate pinhole experiments.  Both of these are tintypes and were shot with a Leonardo 4 x 5 pinhole camera.

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Rocks Trees Pinhole

Rocks and Trees, 2015

Shot with a medium format Zero 2000 pinhole camera on Ilford Delta 100 film.

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Recent Wet Plate Pics

Self Portrait in a Window, 2014, Black glass ambrotype

Neighbor, 2014, Clear glass Ambrotype

Alberite Rain, 2014, Clear glass ambrotype

Recent wet plate collodion images.  All were shot on glass (black or clear) using a modified Brownie No 2 box camera.

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Wet Plate Self Portraits

Self Portrait 1, Wet Plate Collodion, 2014

Self Portrait 2, Wet Plate Collodion, 2014

Two new ambrotypes, both shot on black glass with a slightly modified Brownie No 2 box camera.  The first was a 30 second exposure, the second probably a 20 second exposure, interrupted by a passerby wanting to know why I was standing in my studio door staring at the strange box! And, in case you were wondering, I don't really look like this.

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The Paris Lubitel

Have you ever walked into a bar or shop and seen an old camera sitting on a shelf as part of 

the decor?  Have you ever thought "I'd like to take that camera for a spin.  Too bad it's sitting on that shelf, not being used"?  This thought has crossed my mind many times, but a couple of weeks ago I finally summoned the nerve to ask the bartender if I could use the dusty old camera on the shelf behind the bar.

It happened in Paris, in a lovely bar/ restaurant that happened to have a (very) dusty old Lubitel sitting on a high shelf above the bar. I asked if I could use the camera to shoot just one roll. I later learned that the camera had been sitting on the shelf, unused, for at least 15 years. The focus on the camera was broken, the shutter was stuck on "B" and, as I saw after processing the film, the winder did not wind all the way for every exposure and the pictures overlap.  Still, I'm happy with the results.  This is why I always carry a few rolls of film and a mini tripod.  The camera is now back in its' spot behind the bar, waiting for my next Paris visit.  Also, I plan to continue this as a series, and hope to stumble on more old cameras being used as decor in the near future.

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The Paris Lubitel 1, 2014

The Paris Lubitel 2, 2014

The Paris Lubitel 3, 2014

The Paris Lubitel 4, 2014

The Paris Lubitel 5 (Self Portrait), 2014

The Paris Lubitel 6, 2014

The Paris Lubitel 7, 2014

The Paris Lubitel 8, 2014

The Paris Lubitel 9, 2014

The Paris Lubitel 10, 2014