Pinhole gallery on egroups

OK, I've loaded a few of my pinhole shots up on the
http://www.egroups.com/group/pinholegallery site.

Looking at them up there now, they don't really look any more out of the
ordinary than any other travelogue photos. I do love a "pinhole sky"
though. All that foreshortening, and everything tries to vanish into a
point in the distance.

The one "Silent Valley" was one I had high hopes for. It was such a bucolic
setting, little abandoned farmhouse, overcast and moody sky, winding river,
water transformed into a white mist due to the long exposure, cows, barbed
wired right at the camera. But alas, the viewing angle of the camera is so
wide, most of those details got lost in the mix. It doesn't help that the
photo is also underexposed, not allowing me to bring out the barbed wire
more clearly without making the sky look like a nuclear blast has just
exploded above cloud level.

These photos were made with the camera shown at
http://www.silver-bayou.com/pinhole/interest.htm

I'll post some of the oddball mistakes soon, let you folks try to theorize
with me about "How did THAT happen?". Ok, I just posted it, under
error.jpg.

I can assure you that on this image, I did NOT have the darkslide out for
three different exposures. When I was through exposing, I would put my
finger over the hole, push the darkslide in, and then take my finger off the
hole. I've got several like this. Can't figure it out.

Theories?

Dwight

PS Also, that website has a chatroom facility, in case any of you folks
wanted to converse in real time.
Received on Wed Aug 23 23:54:01 2000