PJWphoto » pub http://blog.pjwphoto.net collected thoughts and experiments Sun, 13 Dec 2009 17:59:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Lost in the Pub http://blog.pjwphoto.net/2009/04/28/lost-in-the-pub/ http://blog.pjwphoto.net/2009/04/28/lost-in-the-pub/#comments Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:48:29 +0000 pjw http://blog.pjwphoto.net/?p=136 The other night I was at the pub with a couple of friends and happened to have a pinhole cameras in my pocket. Although it was quite dark, I set the camera on the table we were sitting at and left it exposing while we chatted and drank away. Around midnight we all went our separate ways but the camera stayed, forgotten on the table. The next day, after not finding the camera in my jacket pocket I realised it was still at the pub and went to try and get it back. Someone had put it behind the bar at some point and thankfully it had not been opened, but the shutter was still open! I covered the pinhole and after finishing the roll (only a couple of shots) dropped it off for processing.

image from a pinhole camera left on a pub table and collected the next day.

image from a pinhole camera left on a pub table and collected the next day.

You can see the result above, the recorded experience of a camera lost in a pub for around 18 hours. The image is suitable confused, probably the result of it being picked up and moved throughout the day. I think it looks quite cool!

The film was an old roll of Kodak Gold 200 dated 06/2003 that’s been sitting in the camera for about 9 months so its pretty grainy and the colours are a bit funky. Without access to a negative scanner, I had to resort to photographing the negatives on a light box and adjust the images on the computer. Not ideal but it works well enough.

I’m thinking of doing this again (deliberately this time), but i don’t really want to lose the camera or spark some kind of security alert…although that could be fun too…..

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