The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for creating and editing digital photos and videos, as well as how to make your own still and video cameras.
Here are some cool things we saw in the CRAFT Flickr Pool this week: New Hat for Tommy, by JoJoNeiL an acorn ornament, by lilfishstudios new GANBAYO collection, by tourlou tourlou Cocoon slippers, by a busy little hook Gnome Colour Wheel, cutesypoo
If you’ve ever found flash photography to be too harsh, but often wondered how the pros get those evenly lit studio shots, you should check out a ring flash. Shooting through a ring flash will get you smooth, even lighting, and that perfect twinkle in the eye. You’ll also lose the harsh shadows that usually accompany a flash.
As gimmicks go, this one from diver and photographer Andreas Franke is pretty smart: The novelty of an “underwater gallery” is likely to bring lots of attention to his work in the press (heck, it worked for me), and the situation of the exhibit itself pre-screens for clients who are wealthy enough, both in terms of free time and in terms of disposable income, to appreciate and buy expensive art.
Bakerella shares a divine-looking recipe for homemade graham crackers, and then kicks ’em up a notch by turning them in to replicas of the Instagram logo. She calls them “Instagrahams,” I call them delicious!
T minus three days until our second Maker Faire New York begins, taking place this weekend, September 17 and 18 at The New York Hall of Science in Queens. We continue with our interview series, giving you a chance to sit down and chat with some of the amazing makers who will be there. Today […]
Avatar’s special effects innovator Glenn Derry hacks together blockbuster filmmaking tools. Learn more about Glenn Derry and his homebrew virtual camera in MAKE Volume 27. https://makezine.com/27
Cool find by my old pal Billy Baque. The manual describes the operation of the Hasselblad 500 EL/M, and gives general advice about how to take good photographs in space, should you ever find yourself there. With a camera. As Billy says, “[i]t makes working on the shuttle seem less glamorous and a lot more like hard, hard work.”
