Pinholed digital photos
Not all interns spend their days hunched over coffemakers and copy machines. One of our stellar ReadyMade Product department interns, Tony Meredith (see his work at www.tonymeredith.com), developed a great technique for giving digital photos that fuzzy edged, “pinhole camera” look. Check out his how-to and start shooting, shutterbug!
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Here at ReadyMade HQ, we’ve been toying around with the mechanics of pinhole cameras and loving how a really low-tech device can create interesting photos. So I tried pairing a pinhole aperture with a standard digital camera to avoid the hassles and expense of using film: The results are very cool.I started by poking a hole in a black piece of paper (aluminum foil would probably work too, as would a piece of colored paper) with a needle. I folded the paper into a boxy “C” shape and taped it to the top and bottom of my digital camera, with the pinhole about an inch or so away from the lens, and started shooting.
This picture of an orange ball clock is one of my first attempts; interesting, but nothing to write home about.
Next, I tried cutting out some little (and by little, I mean tiny) shapes in the black paper, then folding it into the “C” shape and trying again.
This time, I pointed the camera at several pages of a catalog that came in the mail, pairing different shapes with different pages of the catalog to create a dialog between the shape and the picture.
Much better!
