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.
Photojojo has a great, concise list of the five things you need to set up a home photography studio. If you just want some great-looking product shots for your Etsy shop, or tutorial photos for that Instructable you’re writing, you only need a simple home studio.
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 semi-anamorphic image. [via DIYP]
Heading up this week’s MAKE Flickr pool roundup is this absolutely beautiful shot of an absolutely beautiful Halo prop helmet from user Tsabo Tsaboc. Other highlights include a Joule Thief from Lenny & Meriel, a lovely handmade switch box from Flabby Boohoo, and a pretty amazing view of custom bicycle legend whymcycle’s backyard. Check it out.
This week in the CRAFT Flickr pool, we saw: Yarn bombing at Freedom Park, by iheartmytho, Contra Cross Stitch Scan, by shaebay, and Mr. Wolf Likes His Coffee, by sew.zinski.
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 camera to cast a shadow onto the film when the exposure is made. The result is a set of spectator silhouettes gracing every frame. Four […]
Extremities is a short skateboard video that shows skater Aryeh Kraus with 6 tiny go pro cameras attached to his body and 3 more cameras filming from afar. One of the cameras is below the skate deck! You get to watch all of the skating from several perspectives simultaneously. It was filmed on a rare […]
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 on how to use instant coffee and vitamin C to process black and white negative film. Of course, there are a few other household ingredients […]
