Garden, Port Townsend (WA)
August 2012
Fuji Instant Film in a pinhole Polaroid camera
It is exciting to take a picture with a camera you have built yourself (if you are a geek). I bought an old, mold-smelling Polaroid camera on ebay, replaced the lens with a pinhole, and replaced the shutter with a piece of wood that slides down in front of the pinhole (the original shutter could not handle the long exposures required with pinholes).
For an entire weekend, I carried my modified Polaroid, tripod and light meter around Port Townsend, and shot about two packs of Polaroid film. None of the pictures were any good. This was the next-to-last sheet of the pack, and I did not bother to put the camera on the tripod. The flowers came out as smudges of color, and I find that the lack of definition and the colors remind me of Renoir.
By the way, the picture is upside down; I find it looks better that way, probably because this way the blue flowers are at the top, and blue tends to recede.
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