This Christmas, I treated myself to something special – a beautiful wooden pinhole camera from Ondu. I’ve been making my own pinhole cameras for years, but this one was just too beautiful to resist.
Last weekend, I finally took it on a trip to St Abbs, a charming fishing village on Scotland’s East coast, and that’s when I really fell in love with this simple wooden box. When I arrived, I had two frames of Ilford HP5 Plus left in the camera, so I shot those first before loading a fresh roll of Ilford Delta 100. With its finer grain and lower contrast, it turned out to be perfect for capturing the soft, diffused light of the overcast day.
With exposure times stretching to nearly two minutes, I had no choice but to slow down and take in the scene.
It was also the perfect excuse to finally try developing and scanning 120 film at home, I hope you like the results of my experiments.
One of my favorite shots was taken from inside a crab trap that had washed ashore on the rocks, framing the rugged coastline in a way I hadn’t seen before. The last photo of the day was a multiple exposure composition of the dreamy seascape, an experiment that turned out even better than I’d hoped.
Wonderful pinhole photos! Very interesting place to take any kind of photos.
You did a great job by perfectly developing the film.
Maybe you could add a bit of contrast, but that’s just my taste.
I really love all of these photos.
Thank you! Now that I have them scanned it’s easy enough, I wanted to use this as a reference for differences between HP5 and Delta 100. HP5 definitely has more punch but also harsher shadows.