Posted by Gregg Kemp on March 5th, 2008 — Posted in Pinhole Photography, Shooting the Moon
The February 20th night of the full moon was a special treat. It included a total lunar eclipse. I had built a pinhole camera to give me a full 180° image. Its actually a single camera that holds three sheets of film in divided compartments. I had tested the camera only once, using paper negatives, and it checked out OK. On the evening of the full moon, I set it out on my deck. Unfortunately, it was a partly cloudy night, and the clouds were rather thick the first few hours. Then the clouds broke for most of the rest of the evening. The eclipse started around 8 pm and continued until around midnight. The eclipse is charted in the second image. All three pinholes were open the entire night. The azimuth was almost straight up, so the proper viewing of the prints would be to hold them over your head.
(click on image to see full size)
Sky and camera data for Durham, North Carolina (longitude W78.9, latitude N36.0):
Wednesday 20 February 2008 Eastern Standard Time
Moonrise 5:46 p.m.
Sunset 6:02 p.m.
Open camera 6:20 p.m.
End civil twilight 6:28 p.m.
Start of Eclipse 8:40 (approximate)
End of Eclipse 12:00 a.m. (approximate)
Moonset 7:08 a.m. on following day
Full Moon on 20 February 2008 at 10:31 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.
I found this name for the February full moon here. It credits the Dakotah Sioux for the source. The most common name is the “snow moon”, but we haven’t seen any snow in Durham, North Carolina lately. And the name fits the image nicely!
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Posted by Gregg Kemp on February 16th, 2008 — Posted in Pinhole Photography
I have one print in the 10th National Krappy Kamera Competition, juried by Jill Enfield. This is an annual competition of prints made with inexpensive cameras using plastic lenses or no lens at all (Holga, pinhole, etc.)
- March 4th, 2008 - March 29th, 2008
Soho Photo
15 White Street
New York, New York
Web Site: http://sohophoto.com
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Posted by Gregg Kemp on February 2nd, 2008 — Posted in Pinhole Photography, Shooting the Moon
I’m exhibiting 5 lunar prints and one solar print in Chapel Hill this month. I mounted a cookie tin camera on the outside of Bean Traders coffee bar in Meadowmont in December and the manager invited me to exhibit some pinhole photos. I also made a camera for the inside of the bar, on the back wall, to make another solar print. The coffee bar is on a corner, facing southeast and southwest. The outside walls are mostly glass, so the interior solar print should be interesting. Both cameras will be up until the summer solstice in June.
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Posted by Gregg Kemp on December 25th, 2007 — Posted in Pinhole Photography, Shooting the Moon
I was just too lazy to scout out a location for the December (Long Nights or Cold) full moon. I took a couple of photos from the full moon on December 21, but didn’t like either. This one is from the following night, the night after the full moon. Its taken from my studio window. The sky clouded up a bit before the moon made its way past my window. The Farmers Almanac notes that “during this month the winter cold fastens its grip, and nights are at their longest and darkest. It is also sometimes called the Moon before Yule. The term Long Night Moon is a doubly appropriate name because the midwinter night is indeed long, and because the Moon is above the horizon for a long time. The midwinter full Moon has a high trajectory across the sky because it is opposite a low Sun.” (click on thumbnail image for larger image) (more…)
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