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.
This website goes into great detail about the process of photographing coins. Yes I know, coin photography is a very small field, but these techniques can be used to photograph any small object. Learn more about Macro photography of coins
Stewart Woodruff has put together a great site on pinhole photography, he includes everything from making the camera to developing pictures in a bathroom darkroom.
Here’s a relatively simple approach to lightning photography using a trusty blueboard – […] the most useful piece of data in the wikipedia article is the time lapse shot of a lightning strike. From the time lapse photo I was able to determine the duration of a lightning strike is about 100 ms. Then from […]
Here’s an instructable on an alternate method for Pika Pika style light trace stop motion animation. Related: Made in Japan – Volume 5 featuring Pika Pika Light Graffiti Animation HOW TO – Enter the ghetto Matrix (DIY bullet time)
Flickr user Rob Cruickshank shares these photos of a bur-marigold in both visible and ultra-violet light. The dark marking seen in the UV picture (bottom photo) is believed to attract bees, which are able to see in that spectrum. – Bidens ferulifolia reflected UV
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Den-kuri Master – electrical MIDI stimulator [above, top-left] Old multimeter case reborn for synthing [above, bottom-right] Styrobots for school [above, top-right] Growduino in development [above bottom-left] Macro microchip
Udi at DIY Photography made a tutorial for transforming a paint roller extension pole into a monopod for “aerial” photography. Just use your camera’s self timer or remote to take pictures from really high up.
