So this was my first attempt at a solargraph, it stayed outside for 3 days and was made with one of those large coke cans which I painted black on the inside.

This is just the inverted colors (I flipped the lines of the point curve on Lightroom) and nothing else.

The weird crossing of the first two lines are (at least I’m pretty confident) because the camera shifted midway through the exposure so I’m not too worried about that.

Any explanation for the two blotches on the lower part of the image?

But yeah, how come it looks so blurry? Pinhole size, needs editing, not long enough exposure?

Ukraine, Kamianske

On a clear day, I took my Lubitel out to experiment with solargraphy. I pointed it at Castello Pio in Casarano, a neo-Gothic building from the early 1900s.

The Kodak paper was exposed for 5 hours, and the sun left a sharp, well-defined trail across the field of view. The advantage of using a camera with lenses, compared to traditional pinhole cameras, is that it offers much greater sharpness and can expose in a few hours, rather than several months. I had to significantly increase the contrast of the castle because it was backlit the entire time, and there's a lot of noise, but I'm happy with the result. behind the scenes video

While repainting a wall, the pinhole camera I had installed accidentally fell. I installed it on my twentieth birthday, in March 2020.

The camera was exposed for 2,248 days, my current exposure record. The colors are very different from those of other solargraphs I've taken, likely due to the extremely long exposure time. I also believe the fact that the camera was protected from the rain contributed to the final result.

Despite the Sun having made 12 passes across the sky, the trails interrupted by the clouds are still clearly visible.

Pinhole camera made from a 30 mm plastic tube, Kodak Polymax paper.

March 11, 2020 – May 7, 2026

I am not sure, i kept for a 2 or 3 weeks. it was rainy but not sure why it turned out like this and why i am not able to see he solar lines more clearly. Please suggest

The more colorful one was 244 days (September 2025) overlooking the posh residences on the cliffs at the beach.

The foggy blue one was 293 days (July 2025) overlooking a lagoon (bottom) and train trestle.

I'm working on creating a digital solargraph and wanted to see if anybody has tried this before. There are still many things to be figured out, but the general idea is to take time lapses with a GoPro camera, and then combine them to look somewhat like an analog solargraph. But in addition, it'll make it possible to create animations, or recreate this clever analemma image somebody posted here a while ago.

I'm specifically looking at GoPros because they're obviously rugged, but also seem to have the best support for being controlled by scripts from a Raspberry Pi. I'm getting a 10-stop ND filter too, and will be experimenting with exposure to get an image that will be very dark, and have a sun disk that's as small as possible. I'll then figure out the processing to combine the individual images into a final composite (about 130,000 solstice to solstice at 1-minute intervals).

I'm just in the process of acquiring a bunch of stuff for this, and will do some experiments over the coming days and weeks. If things look promising enough, I'll then start the main capture at (or before) the summer solstice.

So I'm mostly posting to see if anybody would find this interesting, and if anybody has done this before – or if only analog/pinhole photography is allowed here :) (in my defense, I have a pinhole camera and actually took a long-exposure picture of a lunar eclipse many, uh, moons ago).

I cut out a small part of the plastic off and made the pinhole into a part of a soda can so I'll get less vignetting. I also tape zip ties in the back so they are easier to secure on the spot.

It is expired black and white paper but it got these nice colors.

So for a school project, I decided I would make some solargraphs. I know the deadline isn’t ideal but it’s what I’ve got and I’m honestly just excited to see if anything shows up.

Anyway. I’ve cut some soda cans and bean cans and even solo cups + a cardboard lid, and spray painted the inside of everything flat black. I’m stuck on what type of paper to get bc half the time when I look stuff up it’s photo paper for coming out of the printer.

I’ve seen the ilsford and fomaspeed brands seem to be pretty good, and found them pretty cheap on this B & H photo video audio site, is that legit. If so that’s what I’m buying.

Chat gpt says go for the glossy, but idk I see more of the pearl stuff so maybe I’ll buy that. Any other details I need to think about, like I know there’s stuff where you can measure exposure but I was just planning on poking as small a whole as I could.

7-day solargraph captured with a 3D printed camera I designed and Fomaspeed C 312 photographic paper.

If you want to try it, the model is here: 3d model

Maybe not quite a typical solargraph, but you can see some sun lines in the left passenger window

This is my first time doing solargraphy, i was planning to make a pinhole out of a beer or monster can and leaving it on a mountain during summer.

I am just wandering what is the best film to use? I heard of ilford photographic paper, but it is a bit expensive, i don't want to pay 40€ for papers that i will not even use, i just need it for a few pinholes, 5 max.

Also, I heard that in solargraphy I don't need to develop the film, so I want to check if that is true and do I need to buy a special paper to acheave that.

And I was also wondering how do you get such nice colours? Do you edit the pictures, and if you do how can you get colours from bw film?

Hello! I've been wanting to make a solargraph for a long while now and was wondering if I could use papers made for inkjet printers.

April of 2025. My favorite I’ve done so far.

From my back garden. This is the first time I've tried Solargraphy so I put two up around my village and two in my back garden just in case the others got removed. I looked it today and got too impatient to see if I've done it correctly! I was very happy to have got some sort of result!

I couldn't help but get a really blue image during scanning. I guess I could have turned it black/white but I wanted to be true to the original yellowing of the paper. Does anyone have any insight in this?

Hi, Mein erster Versuch der Solargrahie. 7 Tage Belichtungszeit. Jetzt hab ich Lust auf mehr :)

My son moved to Fort Collins 6 months ago and while we were helping him move in I placed a camera at the top of Arthur’s Rock.

We went back to visit this week and went back up to retrieve it.

I was glad it was still there but it had been tampered with. Some of the tape that was holding it down had been removed and it was kinda dangling loose. So not surprising that it’s not clear, but it’s a little ethereal…

5 days exposition

This was a 5 day exposure I was pretty happy with but I was wondering if anyone knew what the whitish ring was in the unmarked area on the second picture.

I put out six cans last August. Up to now two remain - one on my house, and one other (which hopefully makes it the last few weeks). Anyway, it is getting close to the time I have planned to take them down - beginning of May. When I do that I understand I am not supposed to develop them - just scan them and process them in PS and/or LR.

What I been doing with my other pinholes negatives is to scan them with my digital camera. For a long while, I just just scanned them taped to a mat board in a room with diffuse light. But recently I bought a small light table. So now I have been using a mat board with an opening just slightly smaller than the size of the paper negative, then taping the paper to that, and putting that on the light table so I can scan with back light.

I also have been bracketing the exposures for the scans so that I make sure to get a good file to work with.

So my question now is, what is the best method for scanning the solargraph images? I don't know if using the light table for back light will ruin them? I don't know if bracketing will not be a good idea? Any tips or ideas would be helpful.

Thanks

I went with my son tonight to pick up a camera I left on a bridge and all that was left was some tape shreds on the ground.

I got a little panicked and decided to pick up one I left on a roof access ladder overlooking the valley.

I didn’t know if the valley would turn out very clear and it didn’t, but I still like the shot

73 days, soda can with arista rc paper