Pinhole Photography of Jo Babcock

So I Found a good resource for finding professional pinhole photographers, which worked out a lot better then just starting with a google image search, because I hate to judge a book by it cover but a professional website does go a long way. I was looking at the work of Jo Babcock, his website is here, and just thought his images were really beautiful. He is working with the in-perfections of the camera to create an image that goes beyond what is represented. He also works with the idea of creating a camera the reflects a quality of something that he is photographing. I have to say that I am not really happy with the crappy coffee can pinhole camera I made, I'm better then that I feel. I need to push beyond that, but I feel stuck and can't move past. I do plan to build something else to be my camera, and I ordered 4x5 film so i guess that I am stuck with 4x5 film being a size limitation, because I really don't want to have to cut the film down. This sounds funny, but when ever I get stuck like this I look back through my old IPC note book to generate ideas, can't say anything will come out of it, but I won't know until I try. I'm going to include some images of Jo Babcock that I do like, I especially like the effect of the color film in the pinhole camera.

Pinhole Cameras: Francesco Caponi

I really can't attest to Caponi's background because his website is without a bio, providing any background information. I have read several articles that he has written for several online articles and it seems he has a art school background, I can not say he has a BFA in Photography, but for all i know he does. However, he does have just some great pinhole cameras including one made out of just a pine nut, which is needless to say insanely small, but vary cool. Also top hats, eggs, and a tree, I am still haven't decided on what I want to create the body for my camera out of, but tomorrow I was thinking of heading to antique market place, I was told that I might find something there anyways it doesn't hurt to look, it just can't be too expensive, I haven't decided on the film I want to shoot ether, it might be decided by the body of the camera body. I would like to shoot color film, but I think 4x5 might be too expensive, 35mm is more economical, and then there is all manners of black and white. I guess I'll know when I build the camera, no sense in putting the cart before the horse.

Pinhole Camera

New blog, for photo three, nothing really to report other then getting this started, I have started to look online for ideas for my pinhole camera. I am not sure what I want to do right now, I leaning towards just trying to keep it simple. In the past I have learned that often the more simple you keep the project the better it will usually turn out. So right now I am not going to try to make anything too fancy. I have still not found a housing for what I want the body to be, so I might just show up with some foamcore or cardboard next Wednesday. I found plans for a Semi-Anamorphic 35mm pin hole camera, you can find the Plans Here, I don't plan on building this, but thought I would share it if someone saw it and thought they might want to build it, I do like it for being able to just use a roll of 35mm film without needing to cut it or anything like that. You can just use the whole roll. The measurements for the plans on the website are in mm which might make it a little difficult to build because I don't happen tho have a ruler in mm at the moment. More to come, I remember seeing in the past a blog on how to turn a scanner into quasi digital pinhole camera. In theory it is not hard to build, remove the lid, build the box on top, and hook up to a lap top, but I am going to try to find images as an example of how they look.