Waterfigures
Spikenzie pointed out these excellent high-speed photos by Flickr member Fotoopa – beautiful stuff! – Waterfigures
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: Tilt-shift PC lens
Tilt-shift photography can be a really expensive undertaking. Then again you can simulate the effect in Photoshop, but it just isn’t the same. This is a great project to make that will save you a lot of money compared to the commercial versions. I know there are people out there who would love to experiment […]
Jenna Faden and Jess Horton are pickled
Jenna Faden and Jess Horton, recent Fine Arts graduates of Umass Amherst showed their recent work at the Duxbury Art Association Winter Craft Showcase. Together, they are pickled. They took a brief break from sales and knitting to show their work, saying “we’re really just grandmothers in disguise”, told some stories and returned to the […]
HOW TO – “Homemade strobe photography”
Homemade strobe photography by Tom Anderson and Wendell Anderson… JUMPIN’ JACKED FLASH We built a strobe flash out of a Kodak disposable camera and then designed a circuit that triggers the flash when it detects a sound or other measurable event. The strobe flash will freeze motion! We use a digital camera set for a […]
macroPhone – an iPhone macro lens
When I need to photograph a small object with my iPhone, the fixed focus lens makes for a pretty horrible image. Inspired by this post, I took a 50mm lens from an old SLR and started using it as an improvised macro lens by holding it in front of my iPhone. I decided to make […]
DIY: USB camera shutter release
This is a really industrial looking remote shutter release for your camera. I like the idea of being able to trigger the shutter with your foot. [Thanks Ross] More about DIY: USB camera shutter release
How-to Tuesday: 1934 USB web cam
A while ago I converted a 1934 folding camera into a USB web cam. I brought it with me to Maker Faire Austin 2008 and a lot of people seemed to like it. In fact, a lot of people wanted to know how I made one. I promised them I would do a how-to on […]
