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Photographers photograph in varying degree
for (a) the experience or for (b) the images. When you photograph for the experience,
the emphasis is on the process itself – the pleasure of the making a pinhole camera,
the pleasure of planning pictures, and the pleasure of making pictures with a
simple device. When you photograph for the images, the emphasis is mainly on the
result. The pinhole camera is basically an imaging device with potentials which
other cameras or techniques do not possess, e.g. softness of definition, infinite
depth of field, rectilinearity.
In
photography certain subjects may be better suited for a particular technique than
others. Photojournalists, for example, normally use 35 mm SLRs in their work.
Portrait photographers often use medium format cameras. Architecture is best rendered
by large format cameras. Also in pinhole photography some subjects are better
suited than others. Long exposures exclude certain subjects, softness of definition
exclude others. Infinite depth of field and rectilinear ultra wide-angle images
represent a special potential. Beginners should start with subjects with
clear graphic shapes or bright colors in sunlight. Cityscapes tend to make better
pictures than rural landscapes with their soft lines and softer shades of color
or grey tones – at least for the beginning pinhole photographer. Portraits may
prove slightly more difficult than still lifes, objects, structures, buildings
and cityscapes.
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