Pinhole

The pinhole camera, to me, seemed like a completely new way to view how we take pictures. With the pinhole camera, we become a tripod with it in our hands, holding the small lens cap open to expose our film on the inside. It's going to be so interesting to see what we come up with, with our new cameras!

I'm very excited to use the pinhole, and I'm trying to think of something to take with it to get a good picture. So I set out onto the lovely internet and tried to find some pictures that would inspire me and here is what I'd found.

I picked these two different types of shots used with the pinhole because I wasn't really sure what mine would come out like. I want to be prepared to see maybe the circle around my image, or maybe it'll be like the one on top of that, and be a clear sepia style. I just don't know yet.

I love both of them because they are interesting in their own way. A normal picture of someone's house wouldn't have been such a good picture if it hadn't been taken with something as obscure as the pinhole camera. The field as well, we see them all the time, but what makes them interesting is knowing that a small little camera that we built ourselves took that image, and that's just damn cool.

Plastic Cameras that Frustrate Us

I don't know if anyone else has realized this, but the Holga camera can be a bit of a frustration. It took me a couple of tries to figure out the settings and that you have to take the lens cap off since you can't see it since you are looking through a different lens.

I do, however, love the Holga camera. The edge blur and the way that it is uniquely itself really is interesting and fun to try to understand all in itself. The Holga is a plastic, sort of toy of a camera, but it is lovely in its own, and it makes me feel so much more of an artist with it in my hands (although none of my pictures really are what I thought they'd be this try). I will try again to see if I can at least get a simply decent shot... we'll see.

A few Holga pictures I really liked:

The edge blurring and the way the smoke comes out of the towers on this one really looked cool!

I like how this artist used the multiple exposure on the same image, it looks amazing!

The water looked interesting coming at us!

I'm also very, very relieved to see that other people had the vignetting on the image like I did...

Converse

When I think of the things that inspire me I think about all the different photographers and their shots, but I also think of the fashion models and beauty that people are portraying daily. I'm in love with converse, Urban Outfitters (not a joke, I haven't bought anything from anywhere else in the last few shopping trips), and the high fashion designs.

I wanted these shoes so badly for my birthday, but they didn't have my size. Any type of UK, Union Jack clothing I'll be sure to be in love with it. I love the flag, and I love the country. Besides the amazing shoes that converse made (that i'm still hoping to buy someday!) there is my absolute favorite British designer, Jack Wills.

Besides many other designers from England, I love Urban Outfitters. I literally live in that store and it inspires me to be creative like they are in their clothes. I wish I had the creativity to do what they can.

I don't think that just photographers can be inspirational.