Can Photography


   These photographs have been made by "camera obscura" method using an aluminium can. A regular photographic paper (which is generally used to make black-and-white pictures) without developing was used as a photosensitive material. Solar light was passing through small (approximatelly 1 mm diameter) hole in the can and falling directly on the paper, "burning" this un-fixed image which was digitally-scanned immediately after the end of exposition. The colors were digitally modified and are false. Exposure time varied betwen one month and half a year. Each bright line is a trail of daily solar path in the sky during fine weather. Empty space between lines means cloudiness. Half-year exposition top line represents the summer solstice (the hightest position of the Sun) and the bottom line - the winter solstice (the lowest). Therefore we can see on this picture annual motion of the Sun in the sky.


All Photos: © Maciej Zapiór


Exposure period: 21.12.2008. - 20.06.2009.
Place: Radiotelescope Ondrejov Observatory - Czech Republic


Exposure period: 21.12.2008. - 20.05.2009.
Place: Radiotelescope Ondrejov Observatory - Czech Republic


Exposure period: 15.04.2009. - 18.05.2009.
Place: HSFA-2 spectrograph Ondrejov Observatory - Czech Republic


Exposure period: 20.07.2008. - 21.12.2008.
Place: Ondrejov Observatory - Czech Republic ( from historical building )


Exposure period: 20.07.2008. - 21.12.2008.
Place: Ondrejov Observatory - Czech Republic ( from Western Dome )


Exposure period: 21.06.2008. - approx. 15.07.2008.
Place: Wroclaw - Poland ( Osrodek Pamiec i Przyszlosc )



Exposure period: 21.03.2007. - 18.06.2007.
Place: Wroclaw - Poland ( Students Dormitory "Pancernik" )



Exposure period: 21.12.2006. - 21.06.2007.
Place: Poreby - Poland



Exposure period: 21.06.2006. - 23.09.2006.
Place: Poreby - Poland



Exposure period: 21.06.2006. - 21.12.2006.
Place: Wroclaw - Poland ( from my window )



Exposure period: 21.06.2006. - 21.09.2006.
Place: Wroclaw - Poland ( from my window )



Exposure period: 18.12.2005. - 21.06.2006.
Place: Wroclaw - Poland ( Students Dormitory "Dwudziestolatka" )


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