Somehow the screen on my digital camera got busted. Since the ill-fated, and mysterious demise of the back display, I've been limited to using the viewfinder. Last week, I finally...
Posted by Chris Connors | Sunday July 10th, 2011 11:30 AM
Categories: Photography & Video | 9 Comments
Only recently did I find out that you can develop negative film with instant coffee, vitamin C, and washing soda. This homebrew developer has become known as “caffenol” and there...
Posted by Matt Richardson | Friday July 1st, 2011 12:00 PM
Categories: General, Photography & Video | 21 Comments
What better way to wind down our Photo and Video Month on MAKE than with a roundup of 10 photography hack projects you can embark on this weekend. Check out...
Posted by Goli Mohammadi | Thursday June 30th, 2011 6:00 PM
Categories: Electronics, Photography & Video | No Comments
Thanks to Flickr user Matt Jones for hipping me to Udi Tirosh's recent homemade softbox design contest over on DIYPhotography.net. For those, like myself, who are unsure, a "softbox" or...
Posted by Sean Michael Ragan | Monday June 27th, 2011 6:00 AM
Categories: Photography & Video, Tools | 2 Comments
Pete Prodoehl’s panoramic head is made out of scrap wood and L-brackets Pete had lying around. The bottom photo, showing Milwaukee Makerspace, is an example of a photo Pete took...
Posted by John Baichtal | Thursday June 23rd, 2011 5:30 PM
Categories: Photography & Video | 5 Comments
While animated GIFs have been around for a while, they’ve recently been adopted by photographers to add small amounts of looping motion to otherwise still images. It’s no wonder they’ve...
Posted by Matt Richardson | Sunday June 19th, 2011 6:00 AM
Categories: Art & Design, Photography & Video | 4 Comments
Join us Wednesday evening for the next episode of Make: Live, our streaming show and tell! Ep11 is all about photography and video. We’ll be giving you a behind-the-scenes look...
Posted by Becky Stern | Friday June 17th, 2011 10:00 AM
Categories: Art & Design, General, Photography & Video | No Comments
Check out this DIY semi-anamorphic pinhole camera from maker Costas Kaounas. Easy assembly from cardboard and black tape, the camera shoots 35mm film across an arch to capture a slightly...
Posted by Adam Flaherty | Monday June 13th, 2011 2:00 AM
Categories: Photography & Video | 7 Comments
Here’s a rather simple and creative film camera hack from San Francisco-based photographer, Ian Tuttle: He glued a pair of 1/8″ figurines inside of a Diana F+ medium format toy...
Posted by Matt Richardson | Saturday June 11th, 2011 6:00 AM
Categories: Photography & Video | No Comments
Here at MAKE, we love both coffee and photography, but who knew that these two passions could be combined like this? Our friends at Photojojo have an excellent step-by-step tutorial...
Posted by Matt Richardson | Wednesday June 8th, 2011 4:00 AM
Categories: Food & Beverage, Photography & Video | No Comments
Manitoba maker, Don Barnard, shows us how how to throw together a simple softbox using a shipping container, dollar store sun reflector, flood light, and some duct tape.
Posted by Adam Flaherty | Tuesday June 7th, 2011 4:00 AM
Categories: Photography & Video | 12 Comments
Photographer Mark Stevenson was sick of losing lens caps, so he came up with this clever lens cap holder that slips on your camera strap. [via Gizmodo]
Posted by Adam Flaherty | Tuesday June 7th, 2011 2:00 AM
Categories: Photography & Video | 15 Comments
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