RE: Re: pinhole-discussion-digest V1 #23

Eric,

Have you seen my tent camera obscura?
http://home.earthlink.net/~peregoy/co.html This link will be changing
soon so don't bookmark it. A pinhole could be used on it but a +1 close
up lens makes for a bright image to draw from.

Chris

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Pinhole Blender
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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [pinhole-discussion] Re: pinhole-discussion-digest V1 #23
> From: "landguardmanor" <landguardmanor@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, March 04, 2008 6:37 am
> To: <pinhole-discussion@spitbite.org>
> 
> 
> Hi Washington, I've just turned a studio, at dimbola lodge Museum (the home 
> of Julia Margaret Cameron) into a Camera Obscure.
> it over looks the side of the garden were Jimmy Hendricks bronze statue 
> stands
> Im also making  a small one for Children to look at and draw the picture 
> they see (as some of the artist used in the early days)
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <IBigbee@aol.com>
> To: <pinhole-discussion@spitbite.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 12:51 AM
> Subject: [pinhole-discussion] Re: pinhole-discussion-digest V1 #23
> 
> 
> > Cheers from Washington DC and hello pinholers! I was very interested  to 
> > read
> > the discussion of turning a room into a camera obscura.
> >
> > The newsletter's mention of metal tea containers reminded me of the
> > Smithsonian Museum pinhole workshop my husband and I enjoyed.  We 
> > constructed pinhole
> > cameras from round tins available at The Container  Store--a chain whose
> > stores span the US, in case anyone  is interested.  We had the museum's 
> > gardens to
> > shoot, and had a  good time nestling the cameras in grassy spots or 
> > concrete
> > perches to make  exposures. Our paper was sort of panoramic, as it was cut 
> > to
> > fit  around the can's interior of course. Very much fun!
> > I also warmed at the mention of alternative photography  overtaking the
> > practice of pinholing.
> > Fellow subscriber Malin Fabbri founded the amazing site
> > _www.alternativephotography.com_ (http://www.alternativephotography.com) 
> > and has edited and
> > published some exquisite editions.  Anyone who  works in an alternative 
> > process
> > (pinholing included, I think), needs to  explore the massive resources of 
> > her
> > site, as she has provided  hundreds of photographers with their own 
> > galleries,
> > and the how-to sections are  of themselves authoritative and well worth a
> > look-see.
> > Ivy Bigbee
> >
> >
> >
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