Pinhole Solargraphy “Can Assistant”
I got another email yesterday, from Tarja Trygg in Finland, discussing her Solargraphy project. It had these wonderful images of multiple arcs of the sun. I found it all very fascinating and wrote to Tarja to learn more. That resulted in a brief news story on the Pinhole Visions website, plus I became one of her “can assistants”.
Tarja’s email was kicking off the next equinox – summer. And that starts June 21, today. So this morning I make 2 film can cameras and loaded them with paper. Then, this afternoon I located 2 places to mount them for the next 3 months.
The first location is the College of the Albemarle Dare County campus. I found a light pole with a view of the marshes and lots of sky. Unfortunately, there are a few new houses in the view, but that should be OK.
The second one I mounted on the Creef Boathouse, a local museum. The curator helped me find a spot (in red, below).
Here’s the view from the boat house:
I did a couple of test exposures in the early afternoon, to get a better idea of what might come out. Here is one of the tests and I was pleased with the results. I mean, you can see the path of the sun in it. I can’t imagine what 90 days of this will look like in the negative though. That’s for Tarja to know…
Only time will tell what comes of the 90 day exposures. Stay tuned…
Tags: solargraph
dear Gregg
How cool that you did a test print!
It reminded me of the time I accidentally left my pinhole camera on a ledge for a weekend. I thought I saw the path of the moon.
It never occurred to me until today that it might have been the sun.
-daisy
Hi. You said “loaded them with paper”, and I don’t quite understand, what paper? I always thought it was film, and I was always afraid whether a 90-day exposure would cause an over-exposured film, too. Waiting for your reply, thank you.
These images are made using black and white photographic paper.