during that shooting and while i was merging the pics to the final hdr photo i thought about the technical and ideological aspect of photography and especially hdr imaging. it's quite an effort to produce a hdr-photo. at first you have to shoot all the differently exposed pictures (these have to be congruent, that's why you ned a tripod for doing hdr photography), then the stitching, the tone mapping and finally retouching noise and undesired objects. in the end you have an artificial "image" that shows a place or object in a very emphesized way.
yesterday i tried something completely new. pinhole photography.
right now it seems to me as the complete opposite of hdr. the equipment you need to do it is really cheap, the aim of this kind of photography is to show a "real" image of the environment and the technical perfection of the photograph is subsidiary. i did both photoseries, the pinhole and the hdr series, with the same camera but the results are as different as they can be. for the pinhole photographs i took off the lens of my camera and put a piece of black thick paper with a tiny hole in it in front of the camera. then i pressed the exposure button for about half a minute. at first i couldn't believe that it was really working, that my camera could produce an image without any lens. but it did and i'm fascinated.
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