Want to try your hand at creating a solargraph? Photographer Justin Quinnell recorded this informative and humorous 14-minute video tutorial on how you can create a pinhole camera for 6-month-long exposures using only a beer can, some photo paper, a pin, and lots of gaffer tape (which Quinnell calls the “elixir of life”).
Here’s an example solargraph Quinnell made by putting one of these cameras on a roof for six months (there are more in this online gallery):
You can also find a text version of this tutorial over on Justin’s website.
Update: As Tom reminds us in the comments below, you shouldn’t duct tape this type of camera to sensitive public locations, lest this happen to you (and your community).
Started out doing photography at the age of 6 using an uncle's old 1940 kodak brownie box camera. At 15 years of age, I decided to buy my very own 1975 Praktica SLR camera. I now shoot with a Nikon D850. I do unpaid TFP and commercial paid work.