Re: Still Life Compositions

I need to ask you a dumb question. You are able to get 25 mm of focal length
on 4x5? What equipment are you employing, that you can do this? That's a
separation of 1 lousy inch from pinhole to film plane, isn't it? I'd love to
try that myself. My monorail and bag bellows **AND** recessed lens board
allow me a fat, gross, long-length 50 mm. What is your trick?

Okay, another dumb question. With that kind of coverage on tabletop, it kind
of seems like you're going to get the doorway behind you in the image, plus
six miles down the length of the hallway, to say nothing of your own entire
carcass. So I'm kind of wondering, why are you working with 25 mm? That it
distorts, would be one good reason. But you'll get distortion with 40-60 mm,
won't you? Do you have to stick to 25 mm? If I didn't like it that I was
getting so much into the frame, that probably would be my first point of
reassessment. Give yourself some bellows. I mean, unless you can position
your camera so it's a quarter of an inch from your subject matter. I tried
that recently w/ table top myself. The camera actually cast a shadow onto my
subject. Impossible.

Mike Healy

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Andrews" <mandrews@dragonbones.com>
To: <pinhole-discussion@pinhole.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 28, 2002 6:47 PM
Subject: [pinhole-discussion] Still Life Compositions

I am novice pinhole photographer looking for some advice regarding shooting
still life compositions with my 4X5 Pinhole Camera (25mm focal length).

My issue is that I am trying to limit the elements in my composition, but
tend to pick up a significant amount of the surrounding area no mater how
close I am to the still life composition. Is it possible to limit the
surrounding area? I've seen other pinhole still lifes with a limited
composition--perhaps this was accomplished in the darkroom?

Many thanks in advance for any advice you can offer.

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Received on Sat Dec 28 23:46:03 2002