Martin, this video changes my look towards photography! You’ve made me realise that photography is not about fancy cameras and lenses it’s about creating beautiful artistic images which pleases the viewer eyes and soul! Thanks again Martin, this is for me the best channel on RU-vid ❤ keep up your amazing work ❗️
My husband said the same thing. He took up photography as a young boy( secondary school age) back in the mid to late 1960's. It was a hobby he could share with his dad who had been an amateur photographer for many years. Basically since the year I was born 1969. He's not easily pleased , but was really impressed with the quality and sharpness of the photograph considering it was done on a home made pinhole camera .
@@lynn69jackson I appreciate this comment, especially in light of the trolls :). I've always liked how Martin's videos convey enthusiasm, while at the same time being relaxing and immersive. But this one in particular took me back to my middle school optics class and the pinhole camera I made and used as a school project. So for me, it united art and engineering, professionalism and the hobbyist's enthusiasm, science and the humanities, nostalgia and present possibility... If you liked it, go back a year or so and check out some of Martin's other pinhole camera videos. I liked the one of the flowers from a low angle, and maybe your husband would too.
Third time watching this video. Making a pinhole with my mother as a child is what hooked me. 40 years later and I still have a camera in my hand everyday. I miss the darkroom.
I didn't even realize that the video was 30 minutes long. I'd love a series of these! The whole process was extremely interesting and insightful. Talent in its pure form.
That was great, such a clear video, and at the end, a very nice image. But - the memorial itself is quite extraordinary, even by Victorian melodramatic standards. It is stunning and certainly worth photographing. I hope the poor soul buried there was much loved.
Been doing this as teacher of Photography students for 22 years with a camera where I go from the raw materials to a picture in 5 mins using a really simple and easy way of making pinhole cameras that I've never seen anyone else use before. What I've learned from this, which is interesting is the use of the film developer as opposed to paper developer, I might give it a go. Decent video. Just looked and seen you've sold it for £75, that's not bad business either.
I thought the two dead people you were stepping on wouldn't let the photograph appear, you were lucky. The excellent result. I follow you starting today from Barcelona, Spain.
Absolutely wonderful explanation and process, yielding gorgeous results. Bravissimo!! I'm a fully retired Corporate photographer, with 31 years in that capacity. I personally own 4 large format film cameras, 3 of which are 4"x5" and 1 - 5" x 7". However it's mostly digital these days, mostly Canon and both D-SLRs and mirrorless, with both APS-C and FF systems. I have created pinholes and pinhole cameras. I prefer to temporarily mount the pinholes onto a digital camera first, to both grade the pinhole quality as well as to assess the effective aperture value. This process also helps determine shutter reciprocity error.
Martin, that was truly a wonderful video! Before my decades of pro shooting in NY, I built my own 11x14" pinhole with film holders (I shot film with it, and some paper negs). Two comments. I learned to make the pinhole using a brass shim metal (a couple of dollars at a hardware) and I drilled a tiny hole. This whisks the metal away, and also gives a controllable/predicable diameter. The shim likely sands a bit better as well. I loved your final image! On a personal note, I would have developed the neg a bit longer to get better separation in the printed highlights. I.E. more of a Tmax straight shoulder, rather than those muted highlights of PanX (for those of us that remember all that! lol).
Nice job. I’ve done some pinhole photography before but never managed to get it as sharp as this. I’m surprised how clear the background is. Beautiful!
A wonderful video both artistically and as a way of showing photographers or students the structure of all photographs, film or digital to give a deep understanding of light, highlights and shadows and therefore judging the overall contrast of an image, especially when developing in photoshop or other software. Excellent stuff, thanks for uploading.
They are a lot of fun - made one with a view camera I had using a polaroid back. There was a guy who made one out of an entire hotel room. He made a blackout curtain with a hole in it, then attached numbered sheets of print paper to the opposite wall. He then reversal processed the print paper to get the image.
Awesome as always Martin. I think I'd take a few prepared sheets of paper along with my darkroom bag just in case I messed up or at least have a few different images to process when I got home.
Incredible. I learn new things every time I watch the channel, and this video was a goldmine of practical knowledge and inspiration. I'm really going to have to give this a go now!
I have two pinhole cameras made out of black foam core, one a wide angle and one more of a zoom that both use photo paper as film. I'll have to dust those off sometime, thanks for reminding me.
Echoing what everyone else has said. This was a very enjoyable video. My first time watching you. Amazing tutorial. Cheers from Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Discovered pinhole photography in high school. Had a lot of fun with Kodak B&W paper and a oatmeal box with a pinhole in a piece of a Pepsi can and electrical tape was my shutter. In bright sun exposures ran about 20 seconds. Contact print paper negatives. Always wanted to build a plywood box on a trailer for mural paper negatives about four feet long. Really large format! With an ASA of about 3 exposures were sometimes minutes. An aperture of f 245 made everything as sharp as possible.
Hi Martin. You're a great man! Thank you for your educative video to show us that we can take photographs with very old fashioned way. And it's result is amazing.
Martin, this is such a beautiful photo. Your method is fascinating and I can understand your anticipation in seeing the end result, knowing that you now have ample experience to guide the process to some extent. Even the weather was assisting you and the result is soft and graceful.
I made a pinhole camera a year ago with a Folgers coffee tin, some matte black spray paint, and lots of electrical tape. It worked for a little while, but started getting more and more light leaks
Most photographers on youtube struggle to make decent images with more computing power than NASA went to the moon with. Martin takes rubbish from the waste bin and creates art.
Wonderful video, thanks Martin. pleasure of a walkthrough, especially to someone of my generation who hasn't had much exposure to the origins of photography. Simple and beautiful, as was your result. Thanks for sharing sir
We did this back in the 70s. It got me started into a lifetime hobby of photography and my twin brother into being a professional photographer. I wonder if it could be done digitally with a long enough exposure?
Yes, you can do it digitally. Exposure times are much faster than film or photographic paper of course, even with lowest ISO setting. You can make your own pinhole, or you can purchase them online pre-made. I've done both. I recommend a camera that you don't mind having to do a lot of sensor cleanings with.
How absolutely fantastic!! And I was thinking ‘that looks like Pool Road’ just as you turned in the Cemetery. I lived in Otley for 33 years before moving away. Happy days.
Greetings from America. Great video. That is the sharpest pin hole shot I have ever seen, especially considering the large size that you printed it to. Just a thought, the smaller the "hole" the sharper the image even if it takes 20 minutes for the exposure. Although I've never done it, what about using one of those ReliOn ultra thin lancets that are used to check blood sugar. they're very thin. (0.32mm) That would translate to about f 200 for your camera. And if it couldn't pernitrate the soda can aluminum, it could certainly penetrate aluminum foil.
The smaller the hole does not mean sharper images, there is an optimum size for a given focal length, it follows the law of physics and tests done by two methods of which I cannot remember lol
What a truly amazing video, I've seen a guy on Instagram who has a modern plastic pinhole camera and he puts the developer into the camera after he's taken the picture. The box must obviously be watertight also, I've thought about buying one. I remember using a pinhole camera when I was young. I'm going to give that a go. I've just but my bid in.
It brings back good memories, a few years ago with friends we were taking panoramic pinhole cameras with round iron cake boxes, we were having a blast, we were trying lots of things, it was magical ! thank you Mr Martin for making this known to young people who have not known the history of film photography !
Thank you Martin! Pinholes are so much fun. I'm not sure which part of the process is best - building a camera out of nothing, figuring out how to make it work, creating the image, or admiring it afterwards. Your image is wonderful, thanks for sharing that too!
i love pinhole cameras I made many 5x7" ones and an 11x14" pinhole camera. Although I contact printed my paper negatives. my first few were very high contrast although I didnt try diluted developer I used different silver gelatin paper to reduce contrast
Thank you for taking the time to go through this process and to share it with the world. I did this once as a child - probably in the late 1960s or early 1970s - and your presentation reminded me of that nearly forgotten event in my life.
I heading out to painting studio at this moment because you're video has inspired me. I've been working on a piece and lost my muse. You got me motivated.
This was a pleasure to see. I recall a model railroad magazine article from my youth that expounded the virtues of pinhole camera images to increase the realism of model images. That was a different approach and result than here, of course, but I was grinning and nodding my head throughout your video when I saw what you were going after. You're quite right, of course... Seeing this beautiful print on a wall today would drive many a pixel-peeper mad... I loved the end result, though. Thanks for sharing.
The finished image was very beautiful. And also, his total process was informative and wonderful. Thank you so very much. Doctor George Whitehead (from San Diego California, U.S.A.)
What a interesting video to watch, yes I am at an age when we would make one of those for fun and pleasure in the darkroom! I must also add what a remarkable gravestone you photographed too. Thank you so much for jogging our memories a bit, and to remind us all how photography has come on to what it is to-day....
Amazing, I really enjoyed watching your video, it brought back memories of the dark room I had a as a kid. I want to build a pinhole camera now! Thank you for the memories.
