I like this idea and I want to make one bigger. (Looking through drawers to find giant tupperware) The inside of the pink part is sprayed with silver paint. Then I cut a rectangular hole in the bottom, folded back two flaps, and used electrical tape around them to hold a cheapie Hanimex flash in […]
Focusfinder shows you how to make a light tent, using a bucket… “Improve your table-top photography dramatically, at almost no cost, by modifying a cheap, readily available plastic bucket. You can improve your own photos of small items quickly and easily, using exactly the same principles as professional photographers, but you don’t have to invest […]
Design News shows you how to make a “slave strobe” for your camera – “Photography enthusiast Nick Pagazani was hindered by the range and fixed location of his camera’s flash. Since his camera has no connector for an external flash, he needed a light-activated slave trigger to fire a remote strobe. It had to ignore […]
Since January 1st of 2006, Aaron Freedman and his father, David, have been working on the “jumpingboy” project–every day, they take a photo of Aaron jumping and post. The photos are unretouched camera originals (mostly shot with Aaron’s Canon Powershot digital camera).” – Link.
Mac writes – “I’ve been wanting to build a 360-degree panoramic scanning camera (or PanoramaScanCam, as I call it) for some time. The planets finally aligned (Actually, I was able to obtained a flatbed scanner and software to support it.), so I’ve started the project. Rather than waiting for completion of the project before posting […]
Paul Beard‘s made up a cool cigar box pinhole camera. A brief overview of the cigar box pinhole camera I built yesterday and today. Built around a 4×5 film holder. Focal length of about 30mm, pinhole of indeterminate size, f/stop 100-150, I think. So reasonably fast — 1-2 second exposures in Sunny 16 conditions. Lessons […]
Jesse writes – “Brenda, my wife got me this stereoscope from an antique shop, they are pretty common. It didnt have any stereogram cards to look at or a holder for the cards. I had it for a while. Then this idea happened in my brain. I got an iRiver clix and thought, its small […]
