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.
These lovely images were created with PSCombine, a random image combiner program. From the site: I’ve written a program that randomly selects photos from my collection and then combines them with a random opacity and blending mode. Generally, I generate 5,000 random combinations then manually sort though them and select my favorites. About 1 in […]
From the MAKE: Flickr pool Vibrobot sports adjustable nose-pot [above top-left] Visible atari punk console … in progress [above top-right] Experiments in breath transmisson [above bottom-left] Arduino solenoid drummer [above bottom-right]
This is a really cheap way to get an L-Bracket for your tripod. Why use one? An L-Bracket keeps your camera centered over the tripod for added stability among other things. It’s a great addition to anyone who shoots in the studio. The cheapest one and honestly the only one, that I could find was […]
You can make your own USB microscope using an old webcam and a cheap toy microscope. All it takes is a soldering iron, some hot glue, and an hour of your time. Instructables user moris_zen has the details, which basically involves a little focusing trial and error before gluing things together: While you view the […]
(Image via) The New York Times put out photography tips, and Lifehacker made them better. My favorite, from Lifehacker: Get a cheap, DIY lens hood or flash filter: A lens hood–like the kind you can print yourself–prevents glare, flare, and other light tricks beaming in from just around your lens edges. Similarly, a piece of […]
Paul Romein and Greg Radzimowsky have created an incredible stop action animation of their building of the Millenium Falcon in Lego. I suppose that if you go through the effort of making your own Millenium Falcon, you have to take it for a test drive, right? Have you built your own starship? Have you flown […]
Here’s a cool way to put an inexpensive thrift store camera to use – Do you ever see a pile of Kodak Instamatic cameras collecting dust at the thrift store? They always seem to be in surplus. Maybe it’s because people think they’re a little too special to throw away, but assume 126 film is […]
