Pinhole CFL
Friday, November 16th, 2007I made my first pinhole lens! Very crudely, I might add. All I did was tape aluminum foil over the lens mount on my digital SLR and poked a tiny, tiny hole in the center with the tip of a pin.
Pinhole lenses usually require long exposure times because they let so little light into the camera. Since it was night time and there wasn’t much ambient light to play with, I ended up taking pictures directly into the interior of compact fluorescent light bulb (CFL). There was enough light to take hand-held photos an inch or less away from the bulb.
Here’s a little collage (blue tint added for fun):
