Hi Stephen, On Wednesday, February 21, 2001, you wrote:
> Great Stuff! > I was wondering if the extreme hi contrast look was acheived through film > stock selection, printing or IR film. Also, I' new to pinholing and thought > read somewhnere that one encounters no wide angle distortion due to lack of > lens, but I see some in "Silo" whioch actually enhances the picture. Guess > my "info" about this is wrong. Hey, thanks for the compliment. IIRC, these were photographed on kodak paper, poly contrast II RC, 5x8, ~3.5" FL, with a flat film plane. Normal processing (as normal as I could get in my bathroom). >From what I gather, the high contrast is typical w/ paper negs. I think some of the IR-like quality comes from kind of blown-out highlights, and in the tree picture, movement in the upper branches. I think when they say there is no distortion in pinhole, they're talking about linear distortion (I hope someone can elaborate). In a flat-plane camera, the corners/edges of the film are further from the pinhole than the center of the film, so you have longer focal length in the corners/edges. The wider the angle of the camera, the more this effect. -- Scott Sellers mailto:scottsell...@mindspring.com
