Pinhole Seascapes, 2020

I have long been intrigued by creating photographic images that look like paintings.  Time exposure Seascapes achieve this objective nicely because the motion of clouds and sea soften the image over long exposures.  Here, with Pinhole Seascapes, the effect is heightened further by replacing the conventional lens on the camera with a small sheet of stainless steel harboring a pinhole.  Light traversing the pinhole in straight lines creates the image on the digital sensor; diffraction of light at the tiny pinhole further softens the image.

Pinhole Seascapes were taken through a 0.5MM pinhole (no conventional lens) fashioned into the body cap of a Hasselblad H6D 100-megapixel camera.  All were taken between January 22 and February 26, 2020, either at dawn or at dusk, from the same spot on a second-floor balcony at Marine Street Beach in La Jolla, California.  Tripod mounted exposures between 0.4 seconds and 645 seconds varied depending on time of day and illumination.  The calculated f-stop on the pinhole setup was f/120.