Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day Basics - April 28, 2024

[Nick Dvoracek]

Celebrate the magic and range of pinhole photography by taking photographs with a pinhole the same day as other all over the world.

Document the day by submitting your favorite photographs to the annual gallery at http://pinholeday.org, all of which are still available. There are no judgements or awards. You are the juror. Everyone gets to submit one photograph.

All photographs should be done on Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day, the last Sunday in April. In 2024, that’s April 28 (or a near date for school groups who can’t meet on Sunday.)
You have until June 30th to process your photograph and get it submitted.

All mediums are acceptable as long as the original image was made with a pinhole on Pinhole Day, such as room sized camera obscuras captured with a digital camera.
Solargraphs are fine as long as the shutter was open on Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day.

Any questions, ask support@pinholeday.org

 

[MattKing]

Exact date added to the thread title.
I don't know that I will be able to participate this year, but I have in the past, and highly recommend it - it is great fun.

 

[DWThomas]

It's on my calendar. At the moment the long range forecast looks like showers and clouds, although fairly warm. Never analyzed it seriously, but it "feels" as though WPPD has shown an undue probability of rain over the years. Last year I shot from inside the house but my preference would be decent weather to take a drive somewhere and record some historic structures or rocky landscapes (things that hold still )

The current detailed plan is to 'do something' -- have managed to pull that off every year since starting in 2005.

 

[NedL]

I'm going to try to make something with my macro pinhole camera. I made it a some years ago and have not had good luck with it... twice something went wrong with the pinhole and I couldn't get an image, then I "cleaned" the pinhole but it got too big. Yesterday I made a new pinhole for it and from a test today it seems to be working. Magnification is around 15-20x, pinhole is around 0.08mm and it's around f-1300. Test exposure was 4.5 hours using two "mighty bright" reading lamps to provide the lighting... looks promising. After a couple false starts yesterday that I wasn't happy with, I changed the way I made the pinhole: I stretched aluminum foil over the opening and made the pinhole with a very thin insect pin. The camera is shaped like a pyramid so that light can get to the subject, which is probably the hardest thing about objects close to the pinhole...

WPPD here in Sonoma county is usually very windy!