Pinhole camera manufacturer EightBanners have an insanely useful set of reference photos of the same scene, made with various arrangements of multiple pinhole apertures, slit apertures, and combinations of both. Want to know what result a pinhole plus a slit will produce? Look no further!
The samples a part of a set of 15 apertures they sell for $35.
I posted this before, but a) there are more details this time, and b) there’s still time to send work in, so get to the post office!
Linn-Benton Community College is seeking submissions for Light Box IV, a postal art show of toy camera, pinhole, zone plate, and Polaroid photography.
Due: February 17, 2007
Show Dates: February 20 to April 6, 2007
Format: Two postcards with a brief statement of why the photographer uses that method of photography as a means of personal expression on each card.
Cards:
- Must be rectangular in shape,
- A minimum of 3″x 5″Â to a maximum of 4.25″Âx 6″Â in size,
- Any number of two card sets can be entered,
- All entries will be shown.
Cards will be displayed together on black foamcore panels so both the image and the image/statement/postmark can be seen at once (see example below).
Mail to:
Kurt Norlin
Art Department
Linn-Benton Community College
6500 Pacific Blvd. SW
Albany, OR 97321
USAFor additional information, contact Kurt at norlink@aol.com
The February 2007 issue (Vol 2, Issue 7) of mooncruise*, an online magazine featuring photography and music by international artists, is now up and ready for viewing.
PHOTOGRAPHY by: Andreas Sturm, Larissa Cleveland, Linus Lohoff, Lonya Plotkin, Martin Sigmund, Michael Kristian, Mirela Zdjelaric, Nopoto Project, Noras Ness, Ola Wartak, Simon Hoegsberg, and Thomas Gauck.
MUSIC by: FNDMNTL
mooncruise.com (requires Flash 8)
While it’s a bit late to the party, the 2007 f295 pinhole photography calendar looks like a real ass-kicker! Preview images are available here on f295.
Contributing artists
Bruce Berrien, Stratford, Connecticut, US
Bryan Bogater, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, US
Nancy A. Breslin, Newark, Delaware, US
Mark Richard Brown, Annandale, Virginia, US
Raimundo Civera, Montserrat, Spain
Al Clark, Perth, Scotland
Katie Cooke, Edinburgh, Scotland
Alan Cooper, Ipswich, Suffolk, England
Mary Donato, Boise, Idaho, US
Daryl Duckworth, Hanover, Pennsylvania, US
Chris Ellinger, Ann Arbor, Michigan, US
Zeno Felkl, Leupoldsdorf, Germany
Sandra Fletcher, Eastbourne, East Sussex, UK
Elena Guseva, Foster City, California, US
Steve Irvine, Big Bay, Ontario, Canada
Earl Johnson, Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota, US
Bob Jones, Running Springs, California, US
Danny Kalkhoven, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Murray Leshner, Holland, Michigan, US
Tony Lim, Hong Kong, China
Julian Lynch, Limerick City, Republic of Ireland
Erin K. Malone, San Francisco, California, US
Stuart C. Miller, Indianapolis, Indiana, US
Nicolai Morrisson, Poughkeepsie, New York, US
Andrew Needham, NSW, Australia
Ole Fredrik Nydal, Norway
Tom Persinger, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US
Antonio Prianon, Reunion Island
Justin Quinnell, Bristol, UK
Carl Radford, Glasgow, Scotland
Tim Sandstrom, San Jose, California, US
Clifford Street, Washington, Tyne & Wear, England
Steven Taft, Sarasota, Florida, US
Wolfgang Thoma, Willebroek, Antwerp, Belgium
Marv Thompson, Clinton, Iowa, US
Dennis Venema, Langley, British Columbia, Canada
Ralph Young, Fayetteville, Georgia, US
It’s 26 pages, 11 × 8.5 inches, coil binding, full-color interior, runs March 2007 – February 2008, and costs US $16.29. Get your copy here!
Special thanks to Katie Cooke for helping track down everyone’s URLs.
Filmmaker Jay Cornelius produced a short film about color photography poineer Stephen Shore, in which he talks about all sorts of interesting things.
Stephen Shore is an influential American photographer. Selling his first photographs to the curator of the MOMA at age 14, and photographing Andy Warhol’s factory at age 17, he has had a long and distinguished career, pioneering the art of color photography.
Watch movie (about 9 minutes).
Someone figured out how to fold a 35mm effictive focal length lens into 5mm!
Here’s the abstract of the paper Ultrathin cameras using annular folded optics, by Eric J. Tremblay, Ronald A. Stack, Rick L. Morrison, and Joseph E. Ford, from the Feb 2007 issue of Applied Optics:
We present a reflective multiple-fold approach to visible imaging for high-resolution, large aperture cameras of significantly reduced thickness. This approach allows for reduced bulk and weight compared with large high-quality camera systems and improved resolution and light collection compared with miniature conventional cameras. An analysis of the properties of multiple-fold imagers is presented along with the design, fabrication, and testing of an eightfold prototype camera. This demonstration camera has a 35 mm effective focal length, 0.7 NA, and 27 mm effective aperture folded into a 5 mm total thickness.
Unfortunatey the complete paper costs US $22 for non-OSA members, but I suspect that it’s pretty unreadable by people without advanced optical systems design training anyway. Check out this summary article at PhysOrg instead, which makes sense to the rest of us.
Photographer Matt Callow writes:
The pinhole workshop I ran last summer for teens was such a success that the library has invited me back to run another one, though this time for adults.
This time, instead of using paint cans and paper negatives, we’re going to make our cameras using matchboxes and 35mm film (based on Alspix‘s funky design). So for the last couple of weeks I’ve been trialing a few prototypes, testing out a few ideas, and taking lots of pictures of myself with bedhead and bathrobe.
For anyone who’s local and interested, the workshop will be at the AADL’s Malletts Creek branch, Saturday Feb 17th, 2007, 12–3pm. More details here.
Callow is an accomplished photographer whose work you can see at his Web site, MattCallow.com, and on Flickr.
Back by popular demand! If you want photography stripped down to its absolute basics, then pinhole is it. Jim Cherry will explore the field whose enthusiasts have included luminaries such as Leonardo da Vinci and Johannes Kepler. Come down and see why you don’t need a lens to make a stunning image!
Freestyle Photographic and the Creative Center for Photography are pleased to kick off their 2007 Saturday Lecture Series at the Creative Center For Photography in Hollywood, CA. This series is a collection of free seminars, covering a variety of interesting and informative topics for creative photographers. The lectures will take place every other Saturday at 1:00 PM, beginning on February 10, 2007.
Full details about the Saturday Lecture Series can be found here on Freestyle’s web site.
[I’m leaving the following marketing blurb in because it’s informational and Freestyle do actually rock. —Nicolai]
Established in 1946, Freestyle Photographic Supplies is a leading international retail, mail order and internet provider of cameras, photographic equipment and supplies, as well as the exclusive United States distributor of Kentmere black and white photographic papers, Foma black and white photographic papers and films, Efke black and white films, Varycon/EMAKS black and white papers, Fotospeed specialty chemicals, Holga cameras and accessories, Cachet archival storage boxes, Image Mechanics fluid mount trays, LegacyPro accessories and Rollei/Maco black and white films.
The talk starts at 1:00pm on Saturday, 21 April, 2007, at Freestyle Photographic, 5124 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood, CA, US.
The whole lecture series looks really good, with other talks on Holgas and other plastic cameras, platinum and palladium printing, and Polaroid manipulations. Check out the full line-up.
Via Pinhole Visions
Check out the new Holga Steel from holgamods! ("Not really steel, just chrome paint".) Nice!
US $49.95, includes the standard mod package (2 working apertures, close focussing, 6×6 and 645 masks, factory bulb shutter & tripod mount).
The Hancock County Cultural Network’s February Brown-Bag Lunch series will feature Anne-Claude Cotty of Stonington, who will present a talk titled "Extolling Pinhole Cameras in a Digital Age" at the Blue Hill Library on Wednesday, Feb. 7, at noon. As an active member of many community cultural organizations, Cotty will also address the artist’s responsibility to society in general.
Cotty produces prints, artist books, experimental photography and, recently, jewelry using photographic images. She will describe the process of making rudimentary cameras with household materials and the soft-focus and inadvertent effects they can capture on film. What many will recall as a science project in fourth grade, she elevates to a magical tool in creating multi-layered, poetic images. And the photographic darkroom, replaced by so many photographers with computers and printers, remains a vital place for making photographs by hand.
A studio artist and educator for over 30 years, Cotty received an MFA in printmaking from the University of Alberta. She maintains her own gallery in Stonington and offers workshops for all ages in printmaking and pinhole cameras in her studios. She is also an art teacher on Isle au Haut and Frenchboro. Her work has been widely published and exhibited throughout this country and abroad and can be found in many collections including the Portland Museum of Art. She is the former executive director of the Hancock County Cultural Network.
The Brown-Bag Lunch is free and participants are encouraged to bring their lunch. Coffee and tea will be provided. The Brown-Bag Lunch series is sponsored in part by a grant from the Maine Humanities Council.
The talk starts at 12:00pm at the Blue Hill Library, 5 Parker Point Rd., Blue Hill, ME, US.
Via Pinhole Visions
