#669
Allentown, New Jersey, United States (member of CdCC group)
"With the rainy and dark weather on Pinhole Day in NJ, I chose to look inward. So, I did a self portrait, but only of my left eye. Taken in color and altered with various filter effects, the final result is mysterious and a bit disconcerting, sort of the general mood lately…"
"This image was taken with a Canon Rebel t2i digital SLR camera and a homemade 0.26mm silver pinhole mounted to the inside of a Canon body cap giving an effective "focal length" of 48mm. The camera was mounted on a small tabletop tripod and my chin was resting on the top of a larger tripod on the floor. A cable release was used to make the 2 second exposure at 6400 ISO. The resulting image was denoised with Topaz Denoise AI and then edited in PhotoShop using NIK and Topaz software. For the pinhole diameter, I used the figure 6.1A table in Eric Renner's book on Pinhole Photography, 4th Edition. The tapered portion of a #13 beading needle formed the pinhole, sanding with 1000 grit abrasive paper on both sides."