While one has awareness of an ultra wide view and a near- infinite depth of field, exactly how those will be expressed in the captured image is hard to accurately foresee. I frequently mount my pinhole camera on a small tabletop tripod because I like the low angle views which that allows. A side effect of that choice is some guesswork in aim that often results in the inclusion of unanticipated elements.
While sunlit scenes can be captured by the pinhole in a second or two, a shaded subject typically requires an exposure of eight or ten seconds, and picture making in interiors can require many minutes to completion. In that length of time people may unexpectedly wander through the field of view, leaving behind ghostly traces of their passage.
Much of the above was part of my experience on a recent stroll through Old Town Albuquerque with my pinhole camera. The subjects at hand were all very familiar, but the pinhole gave me images of a novel character where my other cameras would likely only have duplicated past experience.
