My husband said the same thing. He took up photography as a young boy( secondary school age) back in the mid to late 1960's. It was a hobby he could share with his dad who had been an amateur photographer for many years. Basically since the year I was born 1969. He's not easily pleased , but was really impressed with the quality and sharpness of the photograph considering it was done on a home made pinhole camera .
@@lynn69jackson I appreciate this comment, especially in light of the trolls :). I've always liked how Martin's videos convey enthusiasm, while at the same time being relaxing and immersive. But this one in particular took me back to my middle school optics class and the pinhole camera I made and used as a school project. So for me, it united art and engineering, professionalism and the hobbyist's enthusiasm, science and the humanities, nostalgia and present possibility... If you liked it, go back a year or so and check out some of Martin's other pinhole camera videos. I liked the one of the flowers from a low angle, and maybe your husband would too.
Martin, this video changes my look towards photography! You’ve made me realise that photography is not about fancy cameras and lenses it’s about creating beautiful artistic images which pleases the viewer eyes and soul! Thanks again Martin, this is for me the best channel on TH-cam ❤ keep up your amazing work ❗️
I didn't even realize that the video was 30 minutes long. I'd love a series of these! The whole process was extremely interesting and insightful. Talent in its pure form.
Third time watching this video. Making a pinhole with my mother as a child is what hooked me. 40 years later and I still have a camera in my hand everyday. I miss the darkroom.
That was great, such a clear video, and at the end, a very nice image. But - the memorial itself is quite extraordinary, even by Victorian melodramatic standards. It is stunning and certainly worth photographing. I hope the poor soul buried there was much loved.
I thought the two dead people you were stepping on wouldn't let the photograph appear, you were lucky. The excellent result. I follow you starting today from Barcelona, Spain.
Been doing this as teacher of Photography students for 22 years with a camera where I go from the raw materials to a picture in 5 mins using a really simple and easy way of making pinhole cameras that I've never seen anyone else use before. What I've learned from this, which is interesting is the use of the film developer as opposed to paper developer, I might give it a go. Decent video. Just looked and seen you've sold it for £75, that's not bad business either.
Absolutely wonderful explanation and process, yielding gorgeous results. Bravissimo!! I'm a fully retired Corporate photographer, with 31 years in that capacity. I personally own 4 large format film cameras, 3 of which are 4"x5" and 1 - 5" x 7". However it's mostly digital these days, mostly Canon and both D-SLRs and mirrorless, with both APS-C and FF systems. I have created pinholes and pinhole cameras. I prefer to temporarily mount the pinholes onto a digital camera first, to both grade the pinhole quality as well as to assess the effective aperture value. This process also helps determine shutter reciprocity error.
I've just discovered your channel whilst searching for pinhole experiments, and I have to say that I've learnt a thing or two and you've really got me inspired - thanks a lot for that. You are a good educator and you also seem very genuine and passionate about what you do! Belgian regards
Thanks Martin! What a straightforward but genuinely inspirational video. I wish I’d watched the video in time to have made a bit for the print. Thanks so much for a wonderful video!
Martin, that was truly a wonderful video! Before my decades of pro shooting in NY, I built my own 11x14" pinhole with film holders (I shot film with it, and some paper negs). Two comments. I learned to make the pinhole using a brass shim metal (a couple of dollars at a hardware) and I drilled a tiny hole. This whisks the metal away, and also gives a controllable/predicable diameter. The shim likely sands a bit better as well. I loved your final image! On a personal note, I would have developed the neg a bit longer to get better separation in the printed highlights. I.E. more of a Tmax straight shoulder, rather than those muted highlights of PanX (for those of us that remember all that! lol).
Nice job. I’ve done some pinhole photography before but never managed to get it as sharp as this. I’m surprised how clear the background is. Beautiful!
A wonderful video both artistically and as a way of showing photographers or students the structure of all photographs, film or digital to give a deep understanding of light, highlights and shadows and therefore judging the overall contrast of an image, especially when developing in photoshop or other software. Excellent stuff, thanks for uploading.
They are a lot of fun - made one with a view camera I had using a polaroid back. There was a guy who made one out of an entire hotel room. He made a blackout curtain with a hole in it, then attached numbered sheets of print paper to the opposite wall. He then reversal processed the print paper to get the image.
A true artist. A man of many years experience. Film I really hope it goes on forever. I'd love to see these so called young gun Expert's with their Leica Camera's build a pinhole camera from a cardboard box. Anyway great video as usual . Most enjoyable Sir,
Grand Pa, you have just nailed it rather pinned it.. amazing & great achievement in the so very digital era... Lot of efforts have gone into this awesome project...Absolutely inspiring.
Echoing what everyone else has said. This was a very enjoyable video. My first time watching you. Amazing tutorial. Cheers from Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Hi Martin. You're a great man! Thank you for your educative video to show us that we can take photographs with very old fashioned way. And it's result is amazing.
Wonderful video, thanks Martin. pleasure of a walkthrough, especially to someone of my generation who hasn't had much exposure to the origins of photography. Simple and beautiful, as was your result. Thanks for sharing sir
Awesome as always Martin. I think I'd take a few prepared sheets of paper along with my darkroom bag just in case I messed up or at least have a few different images to process when I got home.
Wow. That was fantastic.. I'd fall down in the development stage as I know nothing about it but I may give it a try in the future..Great vid, Excellent end result.. : )
I have two pinhole cameras made out of black foam core, one a wide angle and one more of a zoom that both use photo paper as film. I'll have to dust those off sometime, thanks for reminding me.
How absolutely fantastic!! And I was thinking ‘that looks like Pool Road’ just as you turned in the Cemetery. I lived in Otley for 33 years before moving away. Happy days.
Martin, this is such a beautiful photo. Your method is fascinating and I can understand your anticipation in seeing the end result, knowing that you now have ample experience to guide the process to some extent. Even the weather was assisting you and the result is soft and graceful.
We did this back in the 70s. It got me started into a lifetime hobby of photography and my twin brother into being a professional photographer. I wonder if it could be done digitally with a long enough exposure?
Yes, you can do it digitally. Exposure times are much faster than film or photographic paper of course, even with lowest ISO setting. You can make your own pinhole, or you can purchase them online pre-made. I've done both. I recommend a camera that you don't mind having to do a lot of sensor cleanings with.
Incredible. I learn new things every time I watch the channel, and this video was a goldmine of practical knowledge and inspiration. I'm really going to have to give this a go now!
Greetings from America. Great video. That is the sharpest pin hole shot I have ever seen, especially considering the large size that you printed it to. Just a thought, the smaller the "hole" the sharper the image even if it takes 20 minutes for the exposure. Although I've never done it, what about using one of those ReliOn ultra thin lancets that are used to check blood sugar. they're very thin. (0.32mm) That would translate to about f 200 for your camera. And if it couldn't pernitrate the soda can aluminum, it could certainly penetrate aluminum foil.
The smaller the hole does not mean sharper images, there is an optimum size for a given focal length, it follows the law of physics and tests done by two methods of which I cannot remember lol
The finished image was very beautiful. And also, his total process was informative and wonderful. Thank you so very much. Doctor George Whitehead (from San Diego California, U.S.A.)
I made a pinhole camera a year ago with a Folgers coffee tin, some matte black spray paint, and lots of electrical tape. It worked for a little while, but started getting more and more light leaks
Discovered pinhole photography in high school. Had a lot of fun with Kodak B&W paper and a oatmeal box with a pinhole in a piece of a Pepsi can and electrical tape was my shutter. In bright sun exposures ran about 20 seconds. Contact print paper negatives. Always wanted to build a plywood box on a trailer for mural paper negatives about four feet long. Really large format! With an ASA of about 3 exposures were sometimes minutes. An aperture of f 245 made everything as sharp as possible.
What a beautiful and soft image lovely how I miss doing my own developing and printing late 60’s early 70’s still got all my film cameras maybe I should start again , thanks for this video so inspiring regards Fred
It brings back good memories, a few years ago with friends we were taking panoramic pinhole cameras with round iron cake boxes, we were having a blast, we were trying lots of things, it was magical ! thank you Mr Martin for making this known to young people who have not known the history of film photography !
Thank you Martin! Pinholes are so much fun. I'm not sure which part of the process is best - building a camera out of nothing, figuring out how to make it work, creating the image, or admiring it afterwards. Your image is wonderful, thanks for sharing that too!
I heading out to painting studio at this moment because you're video has inspired me. I've been working on a piece and lost my muse. You got me motivated.
I love “alternative’ photography. I’ve got myself an ancient (well 70s era) Polaroid 35mm slide enlarger, and love lifting the emulsion off the plastic and putting it onto print making rag papers, you get this gorgeous, painterly colour that digital just can’t emulate. Making a pinhole was one of the first exercises we did when I took photography as an elective when I did fine arts. I know digital is useful, but for mine film is alchemy, magic. Thanks for sharing your knowledge mate, a great video!
Very nice video! Shows that it is still possible to create great TH-cam content! So cool that you managed to get a CE certification for your home build camera 😉
*You are Brilliant, sir! Many Thanks, from the U.S. Very enjoyable, peaceful and informative video! An instant subscribe from me. Wishing you all the Best. Cheers*
I could listen to this man's voice all day :) Australian viewers might be reminded of our old friend Peter Cundall.
Possibly the best video I've ever seen on TH-cam.
WOW Thank you
🤣
Why? He's nice and pleasant but you strange
My husband said the same thing.
He took up photography as a young boy( secondary school age) back in the mid to late 1960's.
It was a hobby he could share with his dad who had been an amateur photographer for many years.
Basically since the year I was born 1969.
He's not easily pleased , but was really impressed with the quality and sharpness of the photograph considering it was done on a home made pinhole camera .
@@lynn69jackson I appreciate this comment, especially in light of the trolls :). I've always liked how Martin's videos convey enthusiasm, while at the same time being relaxing and immersive. But this one in particular took me back to my middle school optics class and the pinhole camera I made and used as a school project. So for me, it united art and engineering, professionalism and the hobbyist's enthusiasm, science and the humanities, nostalgia and present possibility...
If you liked it, go back a year or so and check out some of Martin's other pinhole camera videos. I liked the one of the flowers from a low angle, and maybe your husband would too.
I was lucky to win the auction. A fantastic photo! Thank you...
Thank you for bidding, glad you liked the print
So refreshing - no gear review, just messing around with a plain old fashioned practical attitude ... and great results. 😊
Yea aggree
Martin, this video changes my look towards photography! You’ve made me realise that photography is not about fancy cameras and lenses it’s about creating beautiful artistic images which pleases the viewer eyes and soul! Thanks again Martin, this is for me the best channel on TH-cam ❤ keep up your amazing work ❗️
Glad it helped
You're the best. TH-cam algorithm is pure magic at times.
I didn't even realize that the video was 30 minutes long. I'd love a series of these! The whole process was extremely interesting and insightful. Talent in its pure form.
Martin, you are the Wizard of old cameras and techniques. This is wonderful to see. Thank you.
Thank you
Wow !
This serves as a scientific history of the invention of photography, too.
Great and helpful video Mr Martin! Inspiring to see how engaged and knowledgable you are in this subject, thank you!
Dammit that was SO enjoyable to watch.
Third time watching this video. Making a pinhole with my mother as a child is what hooked me. 40 years later and I still have a camera in my hand everyday. I miss the darkroom.
That was great, such a clear video, and at the end, a very nice image. But - the memorial itself is quite extraordinary, even by Victorian melodramatic standards. It is stunning and certainly worth photographing. I hope the poor soul buried there was much loved.
Thanks, there is some beautiful memorial in churches
This is a fascinating story. It's a photography lesson right out of the annals of history, art and science of pinhole photography. Excellent video!
What a star you are Martin - total inspiration and antidote to photography snobs!!
Love your work. Makes me reminisce about being in the darkroom in my youth. Thank you.
You lost your virginity there too? 😂
I thought the two dead people you were stepping on wouldn't let the photograph appear, you were lucky. The excellent result. I follow you starting today from Barcelona, Spain.
Been doing this as teacher of Photography students for 22 years with a camera where I go from the raw materials to a picture in 5 mins using a really simple and easy way of making pinhole cameras that I've never seen anyone else use before. What I've learned from this, which is interesting is the use of the film developer as opposed to paper developer, I might give it a go. Decent video. Just looked and seen you've sold it for £75, that's not bad business either.
Absolutely wonderful explanation and process, yielding gorgeous results. Bravissimo!!
I'm a fully retired Corporate photographer, with 31 years in that capacity. I personally own 4 large format film cameras, 3 of which are 4"x5" and 1 - 5" x 7". However it's mostly digital these days, mostly Canon and both D-SLRs and mirrorless, with both APS-C and FF systems.
I have created pinholes and pinhole cameras. I prefer to temporarily mount the pinholes onto a digital camera first, to both grade the pinhole quality as well as to assess the effective aperture value. This process also helps determine shutter reciprocity error.
I'm shocked, absolutely stunning and completely unexpected. Ive been taking photos over 4o years from Italy.
Amazing Mr.Martin ❤ what a creative and inspiring video ❤
Spot on in every way.
No detail omitted.
Beautiful result.
Thank you!
you remind me of myself when I will be old
I've just discovered your channel whilst searching for pinhole experiments, and I have to say that I've learnt a thing or two and you've really got me inspired - thanks a lot for that. You are a good educator and you also seem very genuine and passionate about what you do! Belgian regards
Bro made better picture than i did using x100 this morning.. experience dont lie. Good job Martin. You are gold !
Well that is saying something, I doubt it was not a sharpE as the X100 LOL
Fantastic develop, there's still some detail in the highlights, and the shadows came up beautiful and textured. Bravo Sir!
Thanks Martin! What a straightforward but genuinely inspirational video. I wish I’d watched the video in time to have made a bit for the print. Thanks so much for a wonderful video!
Martin, that is one of the best video tutorial I have seen for a long time, kept me glude to the screen, keep up the good work. Mick...
Cheers Mick
Martin, that was truly a wonderful video! Before my decades of pro shooting in NY, I built my own 11x14" pinhole with film holders (I shot film with it, and some paper negs). Two comments. I learned to make the pinhole using a brass shim metal (a couple of dollars at a hardware) and I drilled a tiny hole. This whisks the metal away, and also gives a controllable/predicable diameter. The shim likely sands a bit better as well. I loved your final image! On a personal note, I would have developed the neg a bit longer to get better separation in the printed highlights. I.E. more of a Tmax straight shoulder, rather than those muted highlights of PanX (for those of us that remember all that! lol).
Great video and so timely given that this weekend is worldwide pinhole photography day!
yes
This! This is what we need. The real creativity and inspiration, not brainless TikToks. Subscribed!
Not only it is best but one of the most valuable videos I have seen recommended for all enthusiasts ❤❤
What a fabulous video. 30 minutes very well spent. Thank you.
Nice job. I’ve done some pinhole photography before but never managed to get it as sharp as this. I’m surprised how clear the background is. Beautiful!
A great demonstration of patience and skill. Lovely.!
A wonderful video both artistically and as a way of showing photographers or students the structure of all photographs, film or digital to give a deep understanding of light, highlights and shadows and therefore judging the overall contrast of an image, especially when developing in photoshop or other software. Excellent stuff, thanks for uploading.
They are a lot of fun - made one with a view camera I had using a polaroid back.
There was a guy who made one out of an entire hotel room. He made a blackout curtain with a hole in it, then attached numbered sheets of print paper to the opposite wall. He then reversal processed the print paper to get the image.
Wow, i wonder how it looks like in the room and how the results can look like
A true artist. A man of many years experience. Film I really hope it goes on forever. I'd love to see these so called young gun Expert's with their Leica Camera's build a pinhole camera from a cardboard box. Anyway great video as usual .
Most enjoyable Sir,
Completely wonderful video- this is what TH-cam was made for.
Definitely victorian ambiance to that resulted photo
What a great picture! I think the soft focus probably helped the subject emotionally... cheers!!
Grand Pa, you have just nailed it rather pinned it.. amazing & great achievement in the so very digital era... Lot of efforts have gone into this awesome project...Absolutely inspiring.
Refreshing.
Thank you Martin for a truly beautiful viewing experience.
Echoing what everyone else has said. This was a very enjoyable video. My first time watching you. Amazing tutorial. Cheers from Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Thank you
Great instruction on making a pinhole camera.
Looking forward to Sunday, worldwide pinhole day.
Its great fun and easy to do
I have to agree, the comments on your submission are outstanding! Again, your creativity demonstrated here is stunning.
Loved this. I have a new project!
Hi Martin. You're a great man! Thank you for your educative video to show us that we can take photographs with very old fashioned way. And it's result is amazing.
Wonderful video, thanks Martin. pleasure of a walkthrough, especially to someone of my generation who hasn't had much exposure to the origins of photography. Simple and beautiful, as was your result. Thanks for sharing sir
Absolutely fun to watch! Pure photography in one of it’s simplest forms. Fascinating video
That was an eye opener video Martin! Now i know a liitle better than before about principles of photography, thanks to you!
Awesome as always Martin.
I think I'd take a few prepared sheets of paper along with my darkroom bag just in case I messed up or at least have a few different images to process when I got home.
I was quite confident I would get something , however maybe I should have , thanks
Wow. That was fantastic.. I'd fall down in the development stage as I know nothing about it but I may give it a try in the future..Great vid, Excellent end result.. : )
You got amazing results from your homemade pinhole camera.
You really nailed that exposure.
Nice job.
Give this man a medal!
I'm glad to see a fellow cemetery photographer - I always go when I don't want to be around people either. Beautiful work Martin!
Man after my own heart, thanks
I have two pinhole cameras made out of black foam core, one a wide angle and one more of a zoom that both use photo paper as film. I'll have to dust those off sometime, thanks for reminding me.
Really nice and fun
Fantastic video. Great tutorial on how to make a pinhole camera and what you can create with it. Great work.
Thoroughly enjoyed this video...well explained...and a delight to watch...old school photography is fun.
How absolutely fantastic!! And I was thinking ‘that looks like Pool Road’ just as you turned in the Cemetery. I lived in Otley for 33 years before moving away. Happy days.
Wow, best results I've ever seen! Good job!
That is totally amazing! Thank you, Martin. 👍👍
Your welcome, thanks for watching
Absolutely wonderful ! Thank you so much. Thank you for the genuine presentation and passion, thank you for not bombarding us with non stop music.
I hate loud music, never happen on my channel
Martin, this is such a beautiful photo. Your method is fascinating and I can understand your anticipation in seeing the end result, knowing that you now have ample experience to guide the process to some extent. Even the weather was assisting you and the result is soft and graceful.
We did this back in the 70s. It got me started into a lifetime hobby of photography and my twin brother into being a professional photographer. I wonder if it could be done digitally with a long enough exposure?
Yes, you can do it digitally. Exposure times are much faster than film or photographic paper of course, even with lowest ISO setting. You can make your own pinhole, or you can purchase them online pre-made. I've done both. I recommend a camera that you don't mind having to do a lot of sensor cleanings with.
Incredible. I learn new things every time I watch the channel, and this video was a goldmine of practical knowledge and inspiration. I'm really going to have to give this a go now!
Greetings from America. Great video. That is the sharpest pin hole shot I have ever seen, especially considering the large size that you printed it to. Just a thought, the smaller the "hole" the sharper the image even if it takes 20 minutes for the exposure. Although I've never done it, what about using one of those ReliOn ultra thin lancets that are used to check blood sugar. they're very thin. (0.32mm) That would translate to about f 200 for your camera. And if it couldn't pernitrate the soda can aluminum, it could certainly penetrate aluminum foil.
The smaller the hole does not mean sharper images, there is an optimum size for a given focal length, it follows the law of physics and tests done by two methods of which I cannot remember lol
Wow!, Just wow. I know the camera obscura, but I ve never seen it in practice like this. Amazing.
Try it yourself its easy to do
Camera Obscura. Nicely done.
The finished image was very beautiful. And also, his total process was informative and wonderful. Thank you so very much. Doctor George Whitehead (from San Diego California, U.S.A.)
I did this with with my dad,couple of decades ago.
If only he could see how everything is changed in the world of photography.
I made a pinhole camera a year ago with a Folgers coffee tin, some matte black spray paint, and lots of electrical tape. It worked for a little while, but started getting more and more light leaks
Excellent!! Thank you so much for this, excited to give it a try! Wishing you the best from over here in Chicago.
And among all this TH-cam trash you finaly find a piece of Gold. Thanks!
Discovered pinhole photography in high school. Had a lot of fun with Kodak B&W paper and a oatmeal box with a pinhole in a piece of a Pepsi can and electrical tape was my shutter. In bright sun exposures ran about 20 seconds. Contact print paper negatives. Always wanted to build a plywood box on a trailer for mural paper negatives about four feet long. Really large format! With an ASA of about 3 exposures were sometimes minutes. An aperture of f 245 made everything as sharp as possible.
I'm back with dad c 1963. Thanks so much.
What a beautiful and soft image lovely how I miss doing my own developing and printing late 60’s early 70’s still got all my film cameras maybe I should start again , thanks for this video so inspiring regards Fred
A beautiful, relaxing pastime. good job.
You are great man . The knowledge u sharing is treasure for every one . Keep on go ❤ from india
I will and thanks
It brings back good memories, a few years ago with friends we were taking panoramic pinhole cameras with round iron cake boxes, we were having a blast, we were trying lots of things, it was magical ! thank you Mr Martin for making this known to young people who have not known the history of film photography !
incredibly evocative, ethereal the right word, real depth - thank you.
Thank you Martin! Pinholes are so much fun. I'm not sure which part of the process is best - building a camera out of nothing, figuring out how to make it work, creating the image, or admiring it afterwards. Your image is wonderful, thanks for sharing that too!
Brilliant! I did this once many years ago and don't remember much about how I did it. I'm inspired to try it again.
I heading out to painting studio at this moment because you're video has inspired me. I've been working on a piece and lost my muse. You got me motivated.
Thank you for this video. I just started to develop my own film and this was really intriguing. Thank you! I will try this out somedays. Great video!
Top job. I did this nearly 40 years ago in high school, and I can promise you that our results were absolute rubbish compared to this! Well done.
You are a true artist and a fine photographer 😘! Cheers from France
I love “alternative’ photography. I’ve got myself an ancient (well 70s era) Polaroid 35mm slide enlarger, and love lifting the emulsion off the plastic and putting it onto print making rag papers, you get this gorgeous, painterly colour that digital just can’t emulate. Making a pinhole was one of the first exercises we did when I took photography as an elective when I did fine arts. I know digital is useful, but for mine film is alchemy, magic. Thanks for sharing your knowledge mate, a great video!
Bravo, Martin!! From Italy, Alfredo
I liked the photo negative even more than the finished photo. How do you know what is in the line of sight in order to take the picture?
Good job Martin! Virgil graham Tucson Az.
fabulous! the most accurate, and effective video i have ever seen! thank you
Thanks
Very nice video! Shows that it is still possible to create great TH-cam content!
So cool that you managed to get a CE certification for your home build camera 😉
I did this for my photo class freshman year in college years ago. I loved the results. Thanks for the reminder.
Reminds me of a photo exhibition I saw in Washington DC years ago called “The Waking Dream” all about the history of photography. Top notch mate!
*You are Brilliant, sir! Many Thanks, from the U.S. Very enjoyable, peaceful and informative video! An instant subscribe from me. Wishing you all the Best. Cheers*