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.

CRAFT Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup

Need some crafty inspiration? Here are some of the cool things we saw in the CRAFT Flickr Pool this week!

Continue Reading June 30th, 2013 Haley Pierson-Cox

DIY Macrame Hanging Planter

Refinery 29 is an epic site for all things fashion, home decor, and thankfully DIY! Their latest video explores the very fun macrame moment that is happening right now and I am excited about it.

Continue Reading June 28th, 2013 Meg Allan Cole

There’s something about Britain, it’s the land of God’s own hobbyists. The Makers of Things is a short film collection by Anne Hollowday documenting the work and workshops of the Society for Model and Experimental Engineers. While today we hackerspaces, makerspaces and fab labs, back in the 1800’s they had the learned society.

Continue Reading June 28th, 2013 Alasdair Allan6

Knitted Bohemian Wedding Inspiration

This bohemian wedding featured on Ruffled Blog is giving me some serious inspiration. That back-drop is out-of-control rad and every crafty girl needs a pom pom headdress moment.

Continue Reading June 25th, 2013 Meg Allan Cole

How-To: LED Photo Lights

What do you use to light small objects you’re trying to photograph? MAKE contributing editor and author of the bestselling Make: Electronics book Charles Platt found that electronic flash is overkill and photo lights are too bulky and hot, so he built an array of miniature LED photo lights and shared the how-to with us in MAKE Volume 34.

Continue Reading June 24th, 2013 Goli Mohammadi4