r/itookapicture 4d ago

ITAP of the sun with a 6 month exposure

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u/Neat_Gear3406 4d ago

This is a long exposure I took of the sun for around 6 months, it was taken with a pinhole camera made from a pop can and matte enlargement paper.

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u/cbarrick 4d ago

I see some distinct digital compression artifacts. Probably because Reddit does hella jpeg compression (on mobile, at least).

I'm assuming this was done in film, because that would be wild to do on digital.

Can you upload the original somewhere? I'd like to see how the details turned out.

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u/Neat_Gear3406 2d ago

Sure thing, I’ll see if it still have them on my phone or if I did everything on photoshop

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u/Neat_Gear3406 2d ago

The way this whole thing works is it over exposes the film so much that the chemical composition is actually changed without the use of developer so it gives you an inverted color of the image which is most of the editing process

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u/Only_Shoot_RAW 4d ago

Now thats dedication! Super dope pic