World's Longest Exposures

Anngella · 01.14.2009, 11:11 PM

"He made the photo not with a fancy digital camera but with an extremely rude, homemade device — a pinhole camera made from an empty soda can with a .25mm hole punched in it and one sheet of [COLOR=blue ! important][COLOR=blue ! important]photo [COLOR=blue ! important]paper[/color][/color][/color] inside. He strapped it to a telephone pole and left it there for six months, from December 19, 2007 to June 21, 2008. If those dates sound familiar (or astronomically significant), they are — they’re the winter and summer solstices, respectively."

Read more here: http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/21666

I think this is one of the most awesome things ever. I really want to try it.

Alex's Trip · 01.14.2009, 11:17 PM

Neat-O

SYRFox · 01.15.2009, 01:24 AM

this rules

pbradley · 01.15.2009, 01:42 AM

I might be persuaded to expose my own world's longest.

✌➬ · 01.15.2009, 01:44 AM

Nice.

SpectralJulianIsNotDead · 01.15.2009, 02:55 AM

that's beautiful

Lurker · 01.15.2009, 06:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Anngella

I know that bridge! It's Clifton suspension bridge in Bristol.

ploesj · 01.15.2009, 06:54 AM

woooooow.

think of how patient you have to be to wait that long for a photo!

Lurker · 01.15.2009, 06:58 AM

If you look just above the arch bit of the bridge there's kind of an outline of the bridge where there's no strips of light.

MellySingsDoom · 01.15.2009, 07:00 AM

Wow, that is a really impressive pic. What a great effect there - goes to show that there's certain things that can never really be Photoshopped...

nicfit · 01.15.2009, 07:36 AM

Rob Instigator · 01.15.2009, 10:53 AM

fuck that is awesome. thanks anngella

You've been -FUPPETED-

█████████ · 01.15.2009, 11:00 AM

that looks great. now show me the fancy digital camera version.

!@#$%! · 01.15.2009, 11:21 AM

that is fucking beautiful.

not only the scientific aspect of it, not only the natural record (sort of like the rings of a tree), also the ghostly appearance of that bridge in the middle of it all. gorgeous.

and how the fuck did he know how to expose it right? (the size of the hole, the sensitivity of the paper). he must have been fucking with the process for years, or how??

amazing.

!@#$%! · 01.15.2009, 11:24 AM

ps- wow, he had more:

http://www.pinholephotography.org/SSGB%20Page.htm

horrid website, great photos.

by the way, he sells pinhole cameras too, and these are some of the photos he took with them-- ha ha ha

noisereductions · 01.15.2009, 11:38 AM

I've never understood how pinhole cameras actually work.

Anngella · 01.15.2009, 03:42 PM

I want a print so bad but my mom's credit card doesn't allow purchases overseas :[

I'd almost be willing to mail someone the money.

Rob Instigator · 01.15.2009, 03:54 PM

pbradley · 01.15.2009, 03:55 PM

So is this everyone's background now? Tis mine.

noisereductions · 01.15.2009, 04:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

Thanks, but I guess my brain just won't learn new stuff.

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Anngella expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Vagina Posts: 1,900	"He made the photo not with a fancy digital camera but with an extremely rude, homemade device — a pinhole camera made from an empty soda can with a .25mm hole punched in it and one sheet of [COLOR=blue ! important][COLOR=blue ! important]photo [COLOR=blue ! important]paper[/color][/color][/color] inside. He strapped it to a telephone pole and left it there for six months, from December 19, 2007 to June 21, 2008. If those dates sound familiar (or astronomically significant), they are — they’re the winter and summer solstices, respectively." Read more here: http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/21666 I think this is one of the most awesome things ever. I really want to try it. __________________ FLICKR http://slouchingsunflowers.tumblr.com/
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!@#$%! invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: mars attacks Posts: 42,592	that is fucking beautiful. not only the scientific aspect of it, not only the natural record (sort of like the rings of a tree), also the ghostly appearance of that bridge in the middle of it all. gorgeous. and how the fuck did he know how to expose it right? (the size of the hole, the sensitivity of the paper). he must have been fucking with the process for years, or how?? amazing.
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!@#$%! invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: mars attacks Posts: 42,592	ps- wow, he had more: http://www.pinholephotography.org/SSGB%20Page.htm horrid website, great photos. by the way, he sells pinhole cameras too, and these are some of the photos he took with them-- ha ha ha
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Anngella expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Vagina Posts: 1,900	I want a print so bad but my mom's credit card doesn't allow purchases overseas :[ I'd almost be willing to mail someone the money. __________________ FLICKR http://slouchingsunflowers.tumblr.com/
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