The approaching evil

[Gene M]

I wasn't much of a student. The first day of school was the essence of evil to me. No fishing, no baseball, no fun. I still feel the approaching evil in late summer. I'd still cower at the sight of my tenth grade Latin teacher. She was about 120 years old and weighed all of 90 pounds.

I made this photo with a 4x5 view camera last fall. The pinhole was made in a piece of thick aluminum foil with a tiny needle. I taped the foil to a lens mounting plate and made only one exposure before I gracefully put my finger through the damn thing.

I have no recollection of exposure nor film type but I sure as hell remember my tenth grade Latin teacher. I feared her more than my D.I.. (Shudder)
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[connealy]

Very smooth looking results from that pinhole; bigger is obviously better.

[Gene M]

The shot is heavily cropped. Lot's of sky and foreground gone.

[Alan Gage]

No fishing, no baseball, no fun. I still feel the approaching evil in late summer.

Oh man, ditto here...and for the same reasons (baseball and fishing). I'm still a young whipper snapper (27) so maybe it's fresher in my mind then most people; but I still get a little uptight the weekend before school starts. I have to remind myself that I'm not on of the poor bastards that has to go.

Alan

[connealy]

Getting the shot framed right is probably the toughest part of shooting with a pinhole.  I always shoot with the idea of using the full frame, but still end up cropping often for composition.  It helps to shoot a lot with one camera so you develop a sense of what is going to get into the picture and what the perspective relationships will be.

[xenotar28]

Great shot, Gene. It has a definite institutional look. Only thing missing is the barbed wire. My evil teacher taught math in Colombia and she had carte blanche to torture us. I am sure she's scaring hell out of Beelzebub these days. :twisted:

[LarryD]

You are so lucky I went to a Catholic school for 8 years and my Latin teacher was Sister Mary Leather. Most teachers usd a ruler across the knuckles. She used a cat of 9 tails. I never did learn my Latin but I did become a pain freak. Or I must have. I still use real film. LOL  :twisted: