CRAFT Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup
This week in the CRAFT Flickr pool we saw: Felt Chain Scarf by talktothewind, Sock Dragon by MandeeFranee, The Dude and Maude 1 by Mafiosagrrl, and Sugar Molecule by Girl Incognito {itsastitch}.
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.
DIY 3D photography using Processing
Over on O’Reilly Answers, Andrew Odewahn offers up a technique and a Processing script for creating “true” 3D photographs using anaglyphic stereoscopy. I tried these images on my 3D glasses and they look great. DIY 3D photography with Processing
Embracing decay at Sid’s Machine Shop
Via Dinosaurs and Robots come these amazing pictures of a derelict machine shop in the mountains of North Carolina. “No one on the mountain can remember it being open” says the Mondo-Blogo author who snapped the pics. It looked like, one day possibly in the 1960s or 70s, that they just up and closed without […]
PVC monopod/boom/stabilizer
This clever $30 setup is basically a Targus TG-MP6710 monopod with a large PVC base for it. The base lets it work as a stabilizer, and the fact that it’s on a pole lets you use it as a boom. You can also flip it upside down so the camera is close to the ground […]
“Cuban Polaroid” is ultra-low-tech camera, darkroom all in one
It was a wooden box with the bellows and lens from a folding camera mounted at one end with a complete darkroom inside. Using photographic printing paper the photographer would expose a sheet of paper for the negative, develop, stop, and fix it inside the camera, then put a copy stand on the camera and photograph the negative (to obtain a positive), develop, stop, and fix, then wash the final print in a coffee can of water attached to his homemade tripod.
MAKE Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup
This week in the MAKE Flickr pool we saw lots of awesome things.
Mint-tin intervalometer
Marco Jetti’s intervalometer triggers a still camera’s shutter at regular intervals (hence the name) using a 555 timer. The movie is made up of 985 photos shot 10 seconds apart. Schematics on Marco’s Flickr page.
