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The pumpkincam is performing it's last heroic effort at making an image. It has been bravely rotting in the garden with a piece of photographic paper inside, hopefully tracking the sun and making an image of the garden as it decays.
It has been doing this since before Thanksgiving, and I believe I will end the exposure on the Winter Solstice. It seems like an appropriate date, and I am concerned any longer than that, the mold inside might take over the paper too much to make any image at all.
You can bet I will open the camera to fish out the paper negative only after donning a dust mask!
I took the digital pinhole(Canon XT body with pinhole body cap) to the park with us yesterday to have lunch with the Old World Santas. Here's a double exposure of Kris Kringle/St. Nick and his history plate. I love how ghostly it came out...
The Santas are kept company by our city's former mayor, who stays the night in an rv near the display. HIs wife came out and chatted with us yesterday. She told us a lot of information about how the Santas were created. She and several other artists painted the santas, and the wood was carved on site, too. They all also researched the internet for the history on each SAnta, and printed it on a plaque for folks to read. It's truly a labor of love, this project!
Fa-La-La-La-La
My family, along with another family of friends, have been learning to sing some holiday carols in harmony! We have been using the Homestyle Harmony- Learn Christmas Harmonies-Family style cd. The cd plays the Lester Family singing each carol in 4-part harmony, then each part- soprano, alto, tenor and bass- separately. Each singer can then select a part that is comfortable for his/her voice, and learn the part. It takes lots of practice to sing your own part while listening to the others singing along with you! We keep the cd in the car, and have been practicing with it on all of our car trips since mid-November. We sing our way to gymnastics, the grocery store, ad all of our errands. We are beginning to get quite good at remembering our parts, and are sounding quite festive together!
We have no plans of caroling or performing what we have learned, but we and some other families are planning to sing together for fun at a party in a few weeks. We wanted to keep the singing fun, without an agenda. (some of the group are shy about singing and aren't necessarily aspiring to perform) Perhaps we'll go caroling next year, if we all want to.
Please check out the Lester Family's website, if you are interested in this method of singing together! They are a homeschooling/unschooling family in California, and made these recordings when their boys were much younger. The kids are mostly grown now, and are pursuing their own musical paths. We discovered their cds through the Fun Books website.
Image made with my Canon DSLR-turned pinhole camera, about 1-minute exposure @ISO 1600 .
You can have your pinhole photos...in color, and even instant-digital, too!
How???????
Put a pinhole body cap on your SLR!
The owner of our local camera shop gave me this pinhole body cap at Halloween, after I showed him the pumpkincam. (perhaps his way of bringing me back somewhat from the deep end)
The body cap has a machine-made pinhole right in the middle there, so when the lens is removed, and this pinhole cap is put in it's place, the camera becomes a camera obscura! (pinhole camera) The camera records the image onto the recording medium it normally uses (a storage card for a digital camera, or film with a film camera)
This cap I have doesn't fit the threads of my camera body, so when I used it for the first time today, I taped it in place with gaffer's tape.
Here are some other images I made playing around this evening.....
This is a "manual" double exposure- With the camera on bulb setting, (shutter locked open with a cable release) I exposed the tree first, covered the pinhole while carrying the camera to the other room, (camera still exposing all the time) and then removed my hand to expose our dog's Christmas stocking.
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