pinhole camera wanna bes?

[jann1033]

this was a fun thing to do from practical photography...making a pinhole effect, my first try so not saying it is pro quality but it was fun and took only a few mins.
before

after

basically you take a single subject centered with the widest angle you have( which i forgot to use) at an aperture at or ,smaller than f8. PP=blur, add vignetting and sepia. to blur the edges ( photoshope5, go to filter> blur >radical blur>zoom> 3>best>ok. go to radial blur again and go to spin>1>ok. then filter again >correct camera distortion and mess with the sliders till you like the vignetting. change to mono, then in hue and sat. do hue 30, sat 5 for sepia like effect and voila, old fashion looking photo

 

[tinksdad]

Pretty neat!! Looks like a pin hole picture!!

 

[grover]

i love the look of that second photo..i wonder if i can do this in PSE 4.0?

 

[jann1033]

you probably could, it might just take some searching to find the same controls...i think pse5 is pretty much like 4 except for curves and maybe a few other things.

 

[Groucho]

I think you can turn your DSLR into an actual pinhole camera by poking a hole in the center of an extra body cap. I haven't tried it as I don't have an extra body cap, but there you go.

I've been meaning to build that paper pinhole camera, but my printout of it didn't turn out - I tried using a nice heavy paper in my laser printer and it didn't fuse well, so much of the ink was falling off; not good for lightproofing!

If I get it done and can figure out a small case to keep it from getting crushed, I'll bring it along to a Disney park one of these days...