Pinhole Camera Photos

This is interesting. Ever heard of a pinhole camera? Me too. Like maybe in 3rd or 4th grade. My fuzzy memory says we built and used them in a school project. My memory could totally be making that up. Anyway. Sheila Bocchine has built her photography business using only her pinhole camera. She travels the country doing pinhole weddings and portraits.

Says Sheila:
"The pinhole camera is a type of Camera Obscura, the first camera invented in the 1850's. Before it was used as a camera with film, it was a tool to help artists learn to paint and draw with more detail, a tool devised to help tell time and a tool used by scientists for observing a solar eclipse.

My pinhole camera is lensless, uses medium format (120) film, is made from teak wood and produces square images. The exposures are longer to compensate for the pinhole, which is why you will see subtle blur and motion in all of my images. Since the world rarely stands still, my pinhole camera captures all the beautiful motion and energy onto the negative, thus resulting with dreamscape-like qualities. I feel like each pinhole photograph is a marvelous dream… a surreal and whimsical moment in time that has swirled around my daydreams before coming out as the perfect pinhole photograph."

I love finding out about things like this.