High Key and Low Key Portrait Photography

Low Key Portrait/ Strong Shadows High Key Portrait/Even Lighting
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Shutter Sense and Nonsense, 1st place film

One of my favorite Pinhole photographs

Here's a pinhole photograph I took at a local park down from our school. It was taken on a 5 x 7 sheet of photographic paper in a fome-core camera with a tin can aperture. I particularly like how the 8 minute exposure caused the shadows in the tree to appear overlapped. There is also a sense of stillness in pinhole photographs that appeal to me. With the long exposures, quickly passing objects don't usually show up on the image. I also like the challenge of taking a pinhole photograph. With no viewfinder you have to estimate what will be in your photograph, and then hope the exposure time was accurate as well. If it doesn't come out you don't know until you're in the darkroom, and then if you want the shot, you have to return to the location with a new sheet of paper in the camera. While sometimes frustrating, this discovery process makes it all the more interesting to me. I look forward to seeing the pinhole photographs my students create!

1st Blog of 2012

Welcome - looking forward to seeing your blog postings this semester! This is a great tool to share and learn about photography.