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“We Can Pinhole That”

I have mentioned in the past that I don’t have a lot of experience with pinhole photography, but I try to do a pinhole exposure on each roll I shoot with one of my Diana F+ cameras (they have a built in pinhole.) My pinhole photography friends post photos to Instagram with the tag #wecanpinholethat, usually of their camera set-up while they are making their exposure (holla, Moni!) I did the same when I made my most recent pinhole exposures, posting the photos to Instagram. I thought I’d bring those photos over here and show them along with the actual photo I made with the Diana F+. As usual, I metered using a handheld meter, then used Mr. Pinhole to find the right exposure time.

Pinholing, in progress:

Resulting pinhole photo:

Exposure time, approximately 22 seconds

Pinholing in progress:

Resulting pinhole photo:

Exposure time, approximately 1 hour 50 minutes

Diana F+ Kodak Pro 400MC, expired in 1996

I have been surprised at my good luck at getting good pinhole shots with my Diana. I’ll have to start doing more of them, maybe even an entire roll of pinhole photos one day!

{Diana F+} Fourth Time’s the Charm

Originally, this was meant to be a post celebrating the fact that I’d gotten a new Diana F+ camera. It replaced one that had been chewed up by a dog when the package arrived (as chronicled here.) That camera worked and all, but having to use it with all the broken and caved in bits didn’t spark joy 😂

This Diana is the first one I’d gotten that was in the classic turquoise and black colorway

Would you believe it’s my fourth Diana camera! (More about the first two here.) I did not realize that it was going to be a span of years before I’d get all the film for this post developed (*facepalm*) So instead, this post is more like “Hey, here’s some photos I took with a Diana F+ at some point in history!”

Unfortunately, I accidentally had the wrong setting for this photo, but I’m including it because it’s my lovely mom ❤️

We were at Memphis Botanic Gardens for Japan Festival. There was also an exhibit of large metal origami sculptures that was really cool.

Muscle car

Not my best pinhole photo, but these were flowers my mom brought back from her younger sister’s memorial service

Spotted in Oxford, MS

Donuts for my niece’s 18th birthday

My niece’s birthday coffee. I did a long pinhole exposure for this. I like how the coffee cup changed places throughout the long exposure, so you can see the movement reflected in the photo.

Happy 18th birthday, child (this was so long ago haha)

Another long pinhole exposure at a coffee shop. The photo itself isn’t as notable as the fact that we saw the singer/songwriter Ben Folds getting coffee that day. We didn’t bother him, but my sister and I were massively geeking out over it!

{Oh Smoky Mountains}

Here’s a story for you:

My family and I had a little vacation in Gatlinburg, Tennessee/The Smoky Mountains in September 2016. I took only film with me, waited awhile before I sent it away to be developed, and got a surprise once the film arrived at the photo lab: the package had been damaged in transit, and two rolls of film had gone missing. I was gutted. I knew at least one of those rolls was the primary roll I’d shot while we were in the Smokies. There would be nothing I could do to recover those photos. Thankfully, once I got my film scans back, I found that my secondary roll of film hadn’t been lost after all. Basically the first couple of days of our trip were on the film that was lost (as well as photos from the rest of the vacation,) but at least I also have some Instax Mini photos to share from those first two days!

Fannie Farkles Family Fun Parlor, downtown Gatlinburg

We can never get enough No Way Jose’s Mexican food while in G’burg!

In the Village Shops in Gatlinburg – was surprised to see a British red phone box here, as I’d just been photographing them in London a few weeks earlier 😉

We went to The Apple Barn sooooo many times on this trip! 

There was some sort of Harley Davidson meet-up at our motel that weekend

“Homemade Wine,” downtown Gatlinburg

Ripley’s Believe it or Not Odditorium and the Gatlinburg Space Needle

Gatlinburg Space Needle and Arcade

This is a cannibal pumpkin at Dollywood. 

50s-themed area in Dollywood called Jukebox Junction

EPIC eagle sculpture near the Wild Eagle rollercoaster

Red’s Diner

Inside Red’s Diner 

I LOVE THIS SO MUCH – Rockin’ Roadway, Jukebox Junction

Metal sunflower sculpture 

Rides in the County Fair section at Dollywood

Smoky Mountain Cat House 

Our drive through Smoky Mountains National Park, on our way to Cherokee, North Carolina 

On our way back from Cherokee, we stopped at Mountain Farm Museum in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

I made my brother-in-law pose for this photo

Pinhole photo at the Farm Museum 

Chicken at the Farm Museum 

Crazy overexposed photo of the chicken

Delicious ice cream shop in downtown Gatlinburg

Light fixture made of spoon’s at Maypops

Caramelcorn, downtown Gatlinburg

Ripley’s Believe it or Not Odditorium

Ah, good ole Fisherman Cove (the area of our hotel in Gatlinburg where our room was located)

Bear sculpture in the parking lot of our motel

One last pit stop at the Apple Barn before driving back to Mississippi

Truck stop on our way back to Mississippi

These photos came to mean even more to me because, a couple of months after we were in the Smokies, there were devastating fires which reeked havoc on the area. I don’t yet how the landscape will have changed since I was last there, but I am so thankful for our time in that beautiful part of our country. We also found out that the motel we’d stayed in for our 2015 and 2016 Gatlinburg vacations had torn down so they could build a resort hotel there, so things will definitely be different for us next time we visit the area!

Photos taken with my Pentax Espio Mini, Fuji Instax Mini 90, and Lomography Diana F+

{Summer Past}

Between the amount of my photographic time devoted to Amanda’s Daily Photography in 2016 and all the film from Amanda Goes to England, I had a little backlog of 2016 film that I didn’t get developed until 2017. This roll from my Lomography Diana+ was one that got put on the back burner. When I got the film developed, I felt the photos practically screamed “SUMMER!” Which is appropriate since that’s when they were taken 🙂

 

Pinhole photo – the camera got moved accidentally midway through the exposure, which is why it looks as if it’s a double exposure

A mural in midtown Memphis that I love to photograph

The day I randomly saw the Mempops trailer

An accidental twenty-four hour pinhole exposure
(I forgot that I had left the camera there!)

The new Welcome to Coldwater sign (Coldwater, Mississippi)

I feel like I’m in “Field of Dreams”

Crepe myrtles 

Weekly auction in our town

I feel like this must’ve been a pinhole shot – this camera doesn’t focus closely otherwise

Flamingos at a newly-opened Memphis Zoo exhibit

Iconic Memphis Zoo entrance

Lomography Diana+ Kodak Ektar 100, expired 2011

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