Hello everyone, and thanks for your interest in this new Flickr Group Solargraphy 6X6. We will start 2010 by opening our cameras in a collective photographic project that we will see growing as the months pass by.
Open your camera, open your mind, lets experiment with solargraphy. And share with the group. Pictures like you have not seen before.
Much Sun!
Mercurio/Crunchy Footsteps
INTRODUCTION:
In this project we will get some pictures which show us reference points for the human being related with the tour that brings us around the sun. Solargraphy produces fascinating and surreal images, gathering light and astral movements, and giving us unique
information about the atmosphere, which we can compare for different latitudes on the planet Earth.
PROCEDURE:
The Solargraphy 6X6 Project will start December 22 2009, and end June 23 2010. Each participant could upload a maximum of 7 (seven) solargraphs to the Flickr Gallery, as follows:
1 Solargraph with 6 months exposure. In Camera “A”
6 more Solargraphs with one month exposure each, done during the same period in six different cameras numbered from Nº 1 to Nº 6 using the following schedule:
INSTRUCTIONS:
We have to build 7 (seven) pinhole cameras without any restrictions of type or size, but you must consider that they will be open long periods of time and mostly fixed outdoors. We advocate for beverage cans because we can find them everywhere, they are built from aluminum, (we are recycling ;), and they are easy to seal with black gaffer tape. The hole of 0,21 mm ø it is not difficult to pierce with a needle to sew little studs.
Once the seven cameras are built, numerate them with 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and “A”.
Exposure in camera “A” is the entire duration of 6 months. It starts Dec 22 09, and the shutter stays open till June 23 2010.
The exposition of cameras 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 is about one month in succession. We mean:
The nº1 starts at the same time as camera “A” on December 22 2009. Then camera nº 2 starts one month later when nº1 is finished, and camera nº3 starts two months later when nº2 is finished, nº4 starts three months latter when camera nº3 is finished , and like this till camera nº6, which will finish it's exposure with camera “A” on June 23 2010.
Every one of them must contain sun tracks in the frame. It is recommended to use a compass when you position solargraphy cameras.
You can create these kinds of pictures easily with a self constructed pinhole camera, b/w photo paper, computer and scanner. Please visit these links below where you can find some information about the process:
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