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Graffiti cat on old industrial site. I did this as a short 40 minute exposure because the sun was very strong. I love the way it turned out and if I had waited much longer the colours would have been lost. The camera was made from a kit for a pinhole. I adapted it to take an old lens from a broken medium format camera. I like these ragged edged photos!
1 Hour exposure self portrait in camera Lumen photograph. I pre-focused the camera on a box with my hat on top before moving it and sitting in frame. Sitting for 1 hour becomes almost painful as your nose will always itch or your leg starts going to sleep! The very shallow depth of field makes this camera challenging to use!
8 week Solargraph taken in this tiny soap tin with pinhole about 0.2 mm made from a drinks tin https://www.lomography.com/homes/roaringtree/albums/2464059-solargraphs-it-s-going-to-take-time-and-lots-of-it/28163248 I pointed the camera a little to South West and the angle of view is much less than a round tin.
Close up in camera Lumen photograph of old Goat Willow trunk at the community garden. I wetted the paper with a very dilute washing soda solution (1%) but it ran everywhere creating uneven self-development in the final image. I quite like the mix of colours!
Pinhole camera made from TetraPak carton used for Solargraph photography. It works and the negative is cut to fit inside curved and just catching the edges of the carton. Such an easy camera to make although not as water resistant as the metal drinks tin version!
Pinhole camera made from TetraPak carton with pinhole created from drinks tin metal. The negative size was 75x125mm on old Kodabrome paper at least 40 years expired. The 11 day exposure caught the sun trails well but not with the extreme wide angle of the drinks tin cameras.
Elder tree in spring morning sunlight. This was a 3 hour exposure at f2.9 (wide open) on single coated premium glossy inkjet paper. I used the New Formula single solution cyanotype formula. I love the detail picked up.
5 hour exposure in camera cyanotype in spring sunshine. I was very pleasantly surprised by the detail captured on this old Horse Chestnut tree. On the left is the church and spire, blurry in the background.
3 of 3 in camera Cyanosolargraph edited to calm down the wild orange colour and bring out more detail. This was a 5 hour exposure in good sunlight. I love the really strong sun trail and how the short gaps of sunshine are recorded too!
