At the Flower Shop (revisited)

Thanks for the suggestion. I considered it initially and should have done it then. Here it is, at least with the area above the wrapped flowers cleaned up.

At the Flower Shop

This was captured last week at an outdoor flower shop in Santa Cruz. I'd appreciate any comments or suggestions.

Pinhole Pic

This was taken with a commercially made 0.029 mm film pinhole body cap (from Eric Renner's Pinhole Resource). Still blurry, but interesting.

Lensless Photo

In honor of Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day I decided to create a pinhole 'lens' for my Canon 20D, following instructions on the Czech website: http://www.pinhole.cz/en/. Here's my first result.

I made the pinhole from an aluminum soda can, which I cut up. I made a hole with a fine needle. I taped the aluminum patch to the outside of the body cap, into which I had previously drilled a small hole.

With my camera on a tripod, a cable release, and exposure mode set at manual, I took shots at ISO 400 and various shutter speeds - from 1/10 sec to 1/30 sec outside. No viewfinder, no focus. I gauged exposure after the fact by checking the histogram.

Most of the images were blurry, like the one above. I think I need to get a smaller pinhole in order to improve sharpness. Will try some of the commercial pinhole sites.

It is fun discovering that you can take a photo without a lens. Stay tuned.

Suggestions are welcome.

Green plant as fan

Captured in a city garden.

The Color of Rain

Captured in Tokyo.

Two Worlds

Captured at the SFMOMA yesterday. Laurie