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.

Space Shuttle Demating Time Lapse

Space Shuttle Demating Time Lapse

Way cool! This weekend several Resistor members worked together with The Last Shuttle Project and the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum to install a time lapse camera near Hangar 12 at JFK to record the demating operation of the Space Shuttle Enterprise (OV101) from the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft. [thanks, Trammell!]

Photo Textile Tutorial

Photo Textile Tutorial

I have a photography background, so this wearable photo DIY caught my eye. Using a special light-sensitive dye, you essentially turn your piece of fabric into one of those sun prints. If you don’t have large negatives you want to use, the tutorial explains how to turn a digital photo into a negative using Photoshop […]

How-To: Vintage Camera Lamp

How-To: Vintage Camera Lamp

Stacie of Stars for Streetlights shares how she came up with a clever way to display some of her collection of vintage cameras by repurposing them to create a lamp base. I realized that there is not enough time in the day for me to use my entire camera collection. So instead of keeping my […]

Printable Tilt-Shift Lens Adaptor

Printable Tilt-Shift Lens Adaptor

The traditional way to cobble together a tilt-shift adaptor involves some plumbing and a little trial and error. Things have become a little easier if you have access to a 3D printer. Instructables user Joe Murphy put together this custom tilt-shift adaptor for his micro 4/3 camera, but I’m sure you could adapt it to any other DSLR for similar results.