pinhole and zoneplate
pinhole me at the shed
Jill couldn't come today. I did get out for a bit this morning in the back yard with the idea that I wanted to play around with the lensbaby pinhole/zone plate lens. I got it quite a while ago, took a few pictures with it and then put it away, it wasn't my favorite lens. I like the regular lensbaby lenses much better with sharp focus on certain things and blur in other places. Anyway, last night I was thinking, there must be something the pinhole is good at - I just haven't found it yet. Because it is such a tiny aperture it takes quite a while to get a photo. The exposure for the above photo was 18 seconds. The pinhole lens also has this area called "zone plate" that you can use to take photos too. The aperture isn't as small as the pinhole side - it seems to have a very simple clear plastic lens there to keep dirt out of the camera when it's being used. The pin hole side has nothing but the hole but the hole is so small I doubt dirt could get in it. You can use the zone plate aperture to see what you are framing and then slide it over to the pinhole side to take the photo. You can't see to frame with the pinhole - not enough light getting in the camera for that.
hydrangea pinhole
hydrangea zone plate - you actually get more detail with the zone plate but it is obscured by "glow"
pinhole 30 second exposure - I figure if it's going to take 30 seconds I may as well get myself in there too
6 second zone plate
mom's hands zone plate
kali and shiva zone plate
workbench zoneplate
hydrangea and yard pinhole - there seems to be a "stillness" about this that I like
hydrangea and yard zone plate