SOLARCAN
A solarcan is simply an empty can filled with a sheet of photographic film and a tiny hole on one side, creating a pinhole camera.
If you found one and landed on this website though a QR-CODE, congratulations, you found my solarigraphy project! Pleast don't touch it and leave it, it's currently taking a photographs a few months long.
Solarigraphy is a concept and a photographic practice based on the observation of the sun path in the sky (different in each place on the Earth) and its effect on the landscape, captured by a specific procedure that combines pinhole photography and digital processing.
FIRST TEST
In July 2021 I started a a Solarigraphy project and did a first test close to home, placing a Solarcan on the roof of my uncle's house facing directly south and a few degrees up.
I removed the can after 6 months, in December 2021, opened it and scanned the film revealing the image above.
After I inverted it and applyed a few adjustments the result below is what I got. A perfect representation of the sun's path roughly from the summer soltice to the winter solstice, respectivelly the moments when the sun reachest the highest and lower point in the sky.
PROJECT CONTINUES
This is the second solargraph I got. I set it in the Argentario facing south and framing the small island Isolotto and got the sun path moving on top of it.
This was shot from February 22nd to June 15th of 2022, and as you can see the sun got very high and out of the fram because I was shooting parallel to the ground to have a flat horizon of the sea.
Other attempts will follow.