Photography & Video

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.

See-thru laptops!

See-thru laptops!

From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Wow – Flickr user Kap4001 removed the displays from 5 laptops just to . . . wait, no he didn’t – Every screen is showing exactly whats behind it – relative to the camera, which was on a tripod. The most difficult task was to convince the old powerbook […]

MAKE Flickr pool weekly roundup

MAKE Flickr pool weekly roundup

From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Congrats to all the winners of our photo pool contest! Keep posting and sharing – more cool things to come! Mechanical tentacle Handmade Banjos [above, top-right] Pinenut pinhole camera [above, top-left] Tesla turbine + shake flashlight Live-video-rocket readies for launch LED ring light [above, bottom-left] Camera obscura in a […]

Camera obscura in a tree

Camera obscura in a tree

From the MAKE Flickr pool Flickr member Dippold turned an old olive tree into a pinhole camera – I have used the cavity of the olive tree as “camera obscura” of the photocamera. It is equipped of a shutter. This shutter works with a method of carrucolas. The camera has an internal device that support […]

DIY macro ring lights

DIY macro ring lights

From the MAKE Flickr pool Flickr member fdecomite built an LED ring light on perfboard and took some gorgeous macro shots with it! Here’s another design using SMD parts – HOW TO – LED Ring Light for Cameras and Magnifying Glasses Color temperature seems a pretty important variable for this type of project – anyone […]