To clarify the title, these pictures were taken with either a pin-hole camera (a lensless homemade camera), or a Holga (~ $20 plastic toy camera). The two images on each print were exposed on the same enlarger, switching negatives and realigning the paper for the Holga images which use 120 film, or contact printing the large panorama style ortho (half-tone film) pinhole negatives.
I made my pinhole camera out of a round cookie tin (about 12" diameter, 3.5" high). The shape of the pinhole camera determines the shape of the ortho film negative that you will be able to fit into it. I decided to make mine as long as possible, instead of square, to try to capture more of the image and have a panoramic effect. Also, because the negative is wrapped around the curve on the inside of the tin, you tend to get an interesting warping effect on the edges.
The first two were taken from the top of the 7th St. parking garage at SJSU.
The next one is taken on the side of the parking garage.
A fence on the side of campus.
Again, taken from the parking garage. I decided to shoot there because I wanted to try to make use of the pinhole camera's infinite depth of field (things in the foreground may appear just as crisply in focus as things in the far background)and that was an outdoor location where I could get up high enough to have a view. Also, it was close to the photo department... and unless you have a light-tight film changing bag (which I don't), you have to go back to the darkroom to change your film after every exposure.
