Well, not much as it turned out…maybe there was more but was tired so there! I had made a new pinhole for my canon body that was half the size of the other one I made previously. With it I wanted to capture an image of the great old frontage to the Scala cinema. The light was a little disappointing this morning I was hoping for a nice fresh bright looking day with plenty of contrast, but it seemed a bit flat and muggy.
I set up my kit to the right of the building whilst my over sized coffee cup stood precariously on top of a waste bin! I took a quick shot to check composition as you can’t see much through the pinhole. Disappointingly I was far too close and couldn’t get any further back due to a fenced off section behind me.
So I settled for a cropped composition instead.
I continued through the centre looking up and down trying my best to look away from the shop frontages at what might be the shopper’s eye view and attempted to peer more creatively at my surroundings.
To be honest it wasn’t happening today and the bad light and dodgy set up early didn’t help.
I plodded down the street , still not much inspiring me, I came across two guys who were setting up a little veg shop who said if I came back at 7.30 I could take some photos of his shop! It didn’t look great though so I passed.
All in all it wasn’t really a great success, I did get a couple of nice images of a door way to the old swimming baths which I was able to make in to a nice black and white and I also posterised another shot of the same door using Photoshop.
So below you will see two of the doorway one black and white and one posterised and a heavily graphic image of the Scala cinema taken with a pinhole camera.
I am extremely pleased with what I did get; just wish I felt more creative at the time.
Above: The pinhole shot of the Scala Cinema
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