TexasGirl Photography

Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day was Sunday, April 28th. That weekend one of my favorite festivals of the year took place in Georgetown, TX, and since often Sunday isn’t the most ideal day for me to be photographing – especially when the forecast is rainy – I decided that I would celebrate pinhole day on Saturday at the Poppy Festival instead. Since this outing included my teenager (also armed with film cameras) I decided not to bring a tripod. . . . ok my teen had little to do with that decision, mostly I just didn’t want to lug much gear around. I figured there would be plenty of random surfaces to set the pinhole camera on.

In hindsight, the photos *would* have been better with a tripod, but I’m pretty happy with what I managed just using trash cans, crowd barriers, and my camera bag. I opened and closed the camera to make multiple exposures when I was afraid there would be too much movement, and also to preserve a bit of the crowd instead of letting them melt into long-exposure nothingness.

The car show was still going on, which was exciting!

There’s always so much going on at festivals, and I’m looking forward to developing the film from other cameras that made the outing with me. With the Ondu, I searched out angles, especially. I was thrilled to see I managed to get any straight lines out of the endeavor (thank goodness for the level on the camera!).

I would have liked to get closer to the above scene, but I had to hang back and use a railing to steady the camera. Maybe at Christmas, when they have a similar festival, I won’t be a wimp and will take my tripod.

Finally, I leave you with the last image from the day, which I made for a good reason I’ve already forgotten, and which prompted my teen to ask why I was taking a picture of a trash can. What I was aiming for had to do with the people, but what I like best about it are the leaves in front of the tree.

Thank you for looking ! All these images are from the same roll of Kodak Tri-X. And I winged the exposure times, relying on previous experiences with the camera to guide me.