The Power of Color at CoolHunter
This is eye candy at its best. CoolHunter posted a great roundup of bold color in modern design. I think that even the way the blogger put together the images for the post shows sharp color skills. Very inspiring!
Photography
DIY wiggle stereoscopy
Andrew Odewahn of Cambridge, MA wrote this helpful tutorial for creating your own stereoscopic images. In wiggle stereoscopy, the 2 images are aligned so that the “subject” overlaps, and then the right and left images are alternated quickly. Past a certain frequency, the brain interprets the alternations as parallax motion, which creates the illusion of […]
Make Your Own Six-Month Duration Images of the Sun's Path Across the Sky
Make Your Own Six-Month Duration Images of the Sun’s Path Across the Sky, Justin writes – Pinhole photography suffers the illusion that, as its science is simple, it should be easy to master. In practice, creating an effective pinhole image requires learning many variables including: hole size, exposure times, digital vs analog and focal length–all […]
DIY shoulder rig for DSLR video, with clever focus puller
In this video and at this site, annoyingly good-looking Swedish videographer Jonathan Bergqvist details the construction of this clever shoulder-mount device for shooting video with a DSLR. Designed by Jonathan and his father Erik, the rig itself is made out of birch and includes a manual focus puller, actuated by twisting the left handle, that is hacked together from R/C control rod parts and a hose clamp.
Beautiful element photography on Wikimedia Commons
I have been reading the Picture of the Day feed from Wikimedia Commons for about a month, now, and it is fast becoming one of the best parts of my daily newsreader experience. Every day there’s a gorgeous new publicly-licensed photograph pre-selected for quality by a vote amongst Wikimedia community members.
That’s how I happened upon the work of German inorganic chemist and photographer alchemist-hp (English-language page). She or he takes amazing photographs of element, mineral, and chemical samples and has a stated goal (badly translated by yours truly) “to create special pictures of all naturally occurring elements.”
Nature Textures Library
As a designer, I have a great love as well as a professional need for visual lexicons. Type faces, illustration, ephemera, old signage — you name it, I collect it. Textures are no different. It’s not infrequent that a texture is needed for a design project, and what better way to amass a royalty-free collection […]
Camera staff, for when a monopod isn’t classy enough
Flickr user 0olong added a 1/4″ screw to the top of a homemade wooden staff to create this handy camera staff.
