Homemade Pinhole Images

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Jackie Chou

Pinhole Images

  • Pinhole image of a church
    Pinhole image of St Andrew Lutheran Church. Shot with my oatmeal container camera.
  • Pinhole image of an apartment building
    Pinhole image of an apartment building. Shot with my oatmeal container camera.
  • Pinhole image of a sign in front of a maintenance building
    Pinhole image of a sign in front of a maintenance building. Shot with my oatmeal container camera.
  • Pinhole image of an apartment building
    Pinhole image of an apartment building. Shot with my oatmeal container camera.
  • Pinhole image of the Tartan Express food truck.
    Pinhole image of the parked Tartan Express food truck. Shot with a manufactured pinhole camera
  • Pinhole image of Margaret Morrison Carnegie Hall
    Pinhole image of Margaret Morrison Carnegie Hall. Shot with a manufactured pinhole camera.
  • Pinhole image of the Upper Hill/North Oakland neighborhood, viewed from Bloomfield.
    Pinhole image of the Upper Hill/North Oakland neighborhood, viewed from Bloomfield. Shot with a manufactured pinhole camera
  • My oatmeal container camera.
    My homemade oatmeal container camera.

These are static scenes that I captured by walking around the community with my pinhole cameras. It was tricky to get the exposure and composition right — I was essentially shooting blind.