Solarcan

Sténopé “Solar Can” installé sur une gouttière, avec des colliers de serrage.

“Solar Can” installé, rendez-vous dans quelques semaines.
@solarcan.bsky.social
#photographie #stenope #photography #pinholephotography

This image is from Appleton, can #39,806. The scan looked a little over exposed, so I processed it in black and white. The last image was overlooking the Mississippi river in Onalaska, from can #39,838.

Installing a Solarcan pinhole camera between the winter solstice and spring equinox is a unique time in the N hemisphere, with no leaves on trees and the sun isn't too high, so it gets fully captured on paper #pinholephotography #solarcan

The first image is from the Oconto river, from can #38,294

Here's a few @Solarcan Puck images from the windows at Valley New School in Appleton. They have some amazing views of downtown Appleton!

Funding for this project came from the Stan and Phyllis Thatcher Family Fund for STEM and the Dianne Catlin Lang STEM Innovators and Girls Leadership Fund within the Appleton Education Foundation
@thesolarcan #Solarcan #pinholephotography #equinox

Another solargraph. The @solarcan.bsky.social Puck was attached to my skylight but it got rained on heavily and I think some water got in. And it was pointed too low, the skylight is angled south. The Sun has skimmed the top.

It's solargraph Monday with the @solarcan.bsky.social Puck

Another solargraph -- the path of the Sun on the sky captured with a pinhole camera (the @solarcan.bsky.social Puck).

Solargraphy with the Solarcan Puck: an image of the path of the Sun on the sky. Also an image of the view it was looking at. #solarcan @solarcan.bsky.social

Another #solargraph with the SolarCan Puck. I pointed a bit low. :-) @solarcan.bsky.social

One year-long exposure with my @solarcan.bsky.social looking over the Town Moor in Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

I love the result a @solarcan.bsky.social gives… a 31.6 million second (give or take a few!) exposure of the sun’s path in 2024.

Aluminum can with words "solarcan" printed on the side and mounted with 2 big white cable ties to pvc pipes that were mounted to fence. Background is bright clear blue skies and green tree.

My first experiment with #solargraphy! Installed the @solarcan.bsky.social and will see what we get at summer solstice. What a great way to also nature journal the sun! Unfortunately, I live downhill so I did try to tilt the Solarcan slightly but we'll see what we get in 6 months! #citizenscience

Three days late, but time for the yearly @solarcan.bsky.social harvest

Solarcan on beach hut roof apex

Direction solarcan will be facing for the next year

View from the solarcan

Put up my solarcan on Saturday, pointing 195°. It will be up for the next year and 5 days (I will take it down Boxing Day)
@solarcan.bsky.social #believeinfilm

The solstice would seem a good day on which to take down my @solarcan.bsky.social, so I can see quite how seldom the Sun has come out since August! 🔭

Just before the winter solstice, I removed a
@solarcan.bsky.social that I had installed 6 months ago, right before the summer solstice. Looking east onto Reid Golf Course, you can see the ghosting around the trees from the leaves in the summer. #solstice #pinholecamera

After a couple months, I found a @solarcan.bsky.social solarcan installation that fell down from the tree where it was installed. Fortunately, I found it, and still processed it anyway. The errant sun paths and some water damage make it all the more interesting.

I had a few @solarcan.bsky.social Colour cans to install, so I did that today before the trees leaf out. I also wanted to get an angle upwards as we near the solstice so I made a crude stand that I could drill into trees. Time to wait a few months…

I taped a couple @solarcan.bsky.social pucks to the sunroof of my car for a day or two, and love the output I get from driving around under the sun. Now those are maps!

With some help from new friends from the History Museum in Appleton, I installed some @solarcan.bsky.social pucks on the 4th floor of the Castle. The first solargraph is facing east
at Lawrence University. You can see Main Hall on the right, and it looks like the sun is coming out of the Chapel.

After testing the views, we decided to install a full
@solarcan.bsky.social facing south, and we will check back in June. Thanks again to the History Museum at the Castle for the view! Check out their new exhibit coming at the end of the month myhistorymuseum.org

Another great @solarcan.bsky.social image from my Mum's house in Wiltshire. It shows most of the 6 months from July to December (solstice to solstice) 2023. The can was dented quite badly after just a week or so but it didn't seem to affect the exposure much.

@solarcan.bsky.social my next subject. See you in Spring.

Alum Brian Bartel experiments with long-exposure campus views Brian Bartel ‘97, a science instructor and amateur photographer, developed a fascination with Solarcan, a method of shooting long-exposure photographs and capturing the sun’s journey across the sky.

Here's a story about #Solarcan photos I took at Lawrence University www.lawrence.edu/articles/alu... @solarcan.bsky.social @lawrenceuni.bsky.social

@solarcan.bsky.social going to give analemma another try. Wish me luck. Three cans three different papers. Hello from Indiana.

18 months of @solarcan.bsky.social! I may have put it up around the summer solstice in 2023, and then missed the next couple. I figured we were near enough the winter solstice to justify taking it down now. Pretty happy with it given I’d forgotten about it! 😂☀️

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Bluesky thirst trap

Just checking in with some more amazing Solarcan images from the community