Solarcan

Technically I didn’t make this camera, but I like the process of taking the picture. The Solarcan is essentially a pinhole camera that you set up for a long period of time to capture the sun’s path across the sky each day. You basically mount it somewhere and remove the small piece of tape covering the pinhole. This starts the exposure. After the desired length of time, you cover the pinhole and take it down. Then you scan the paper since the exposure will continue to happen as long as light hits the paper. I did tweak the contrast a bit in GIMP to make the dark parts darker.

I left this one up from June to December 2024 but didn’t tell anyone about it. I wanted to see how long it would be before someone noticed it. It was a couple of months before a delivery driver asked me why there was a beer can attached to the side of my house. I was in the front yard with my wife, who looked up and wasted no time in rolling her eyes!