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Old 04-19-2010, 08:16 PM
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Six months. That's right. This dream-like picture shows each phase of the sun over Bristol's Clifton Suspension Bridge taken during half a year.

The image was captured on a pin-hole camera made from an empty drinks can with a 0.25mm aperture and a single sheet of photographic paper.

Photographer Justin Quinnell strapped the camera to a telephone pole overlooking the Gorge, where it was left between December 19, 2007 and June 21, 2008--the Winter and Summer solstices.

'Solargraph' shows six months of the sun's luminescent trails and its subtle change of course caused by the earth's movement in orbit. The lowest arc being the first day of exposure on the Winter solstice, while the top curves were captured mid-Summer.

(Dotted lines of light are the result of overcast days when the sun struggled to penetrate the cloud.)

Mr. Quinnell, a renowned pin-hole camera artist, says the photograph took on a personal resonance after his father passed away on April 13--halfway through the exposure. He says the picture allows him to pinpoint the exact location of the sun in the sky at the moment of his father passing.
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that's pretty close to here,
the lady just lives round the corner from there
very cool picture
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that's pretty close to here,
the lady just lives round the corner from there
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He likes it! He really likes it! And it's not a repost!

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i'm going bristol on thursday,
so maybe i'll be up near clifton,
not sure yet
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by the trails, you can see the changes in seasons for those six months, too.
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wonder how they stopped the exposure from just being over run by light
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by the trails, you can see the changes in seasons for those six months, too.
I profess to knowing not a lot about this stuff, so my question might not sound as stupid when I ask it....say if the same thing were to be done in America or Australia would the trails have the same peaks and lows???
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I profess to knowing not a lot about this stuff, so my question might not sound as stupid when I ask it....say if the same thing were to be done in America or Australia would the trails have the same peaks and lows???
I'm guessing it would show the same sort of pattern, as it's the cameras relation to the sun that does that. But depending on how close you are to the equator the rises would most likely be either a lot more gradual, or much more steep.

And to Guts, it's a pinhole camera which works way different from most cameras especially SLR's.

The actual lens works the same, in that the larger the aperture eg F22, the sharper the photo. What this means though is that the opening in the lens is much smaller than it would be at say, f3.5.

At the same time, the smaller the hole the less light gets in. Because of this there is a huge amount of math involved to get the perfect exposure. But most often pinhole photography is not about the perfect exposure ;)

There's a fuckload of information out there, and I may put something together or you might just go out and do it knowing you Gutts :p.

I gave a pretty bastardized version here.
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I'm guessing it would show the same sort of pattern, as it's the cameras relation to the sun that does that. But depending on how close you are to the equator the rises would most likely be either a lot more gradual, or much more steep.
I'm on a mission now to see If I can find some from different countries to compare them..again stay tuned!
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that's what i tho
wow i just noticed the sunset out my window
gonna try get some shots
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