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.
Czech photographer Miroslav Tichรยฝ captures images using handmade cameras built from salvaged material – discarded wooden spools, elastics, eyeglass lenses, and cardboard tubing find new life as part of his imaging gear. The resulting work is a testament to the poetic value error, imprecision, and circumstance can add to art. When asked about the theory […]
Researchers from the University of Washington’s Graphics and Imaging Laboratory are developing video enhancement software which utilizes data from related still images. Currently only for use with ‘still-life’ scenes, the process incorporates information from higher resolution photos and automatically maps it to the corresponding areas of the video in need of improvement – increasing resolution, […]
Here’s a fun online toy I found through Deep Fun– you paste in the url from an online image you like, and the software converts it into a kaleidoscope image – you can change the kaleidoscope image by clicking and dragging with your mouse. (that’s my cat, Jamie)
Flickr user Nebarnix posted an awesome gallery of high-speed photo eye-candy – High speed photography. If anyone has any requests I’d be happy to blow it up for you! Most of these photos are taken with a special flash unit that uses a high voltage arc in air as the light source. The flash of […]
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Building Benito [above, bottom-right] Software CV sequencer [above, bottom-left] DIY Channel cutting blade [above, top-right] Speaker cube [above, top-left]
I really like this project for its simplicity. The design can be adapted for a bunch of other things too. Maybe it could be adapted for a camera, or studio lights? Just don’t forget to paint the clamp, since it looks so much better in black! When I shoot concerts, I often record audio off […]
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Modded knee brace [above, bottom-right] Results from the electric junk guitar workshop [above, bottom-left] Hot PCB lasering action DFW Synth DIY Meet up Big box o’ techno [above, top-right] Catastrophic Cacophony Workshop DIY easel-workstation [above, top-left]
