Taking big photos in your garage
Ray made a nice set up for lighting and taking photos of large objects in his garage. Thanks Jerry! – Link. Related: Budget DIY lighting system – Link.
Imaging
HOW TO – Make a digital toy infrared camera
Vox writes – “Great instructions showing how Zach Stern hacked a cheap $30 digital camera to see infrared light, giving the dreamlike results…” – how to & photos.
Book camera
John writes – “I spotted this while doing my daily Flickr scan. Take a book, carve out a space inside of it, add film and you have a pinhole camera. Very covert, very James Bond, very cool.” – Link. Related: Make Video Podcast: Weekend Projects – Make a Pinhole … – Link. Homemade matchbox pinhole […]
Stop motion photos
Check out this fun stop motion photo gallery – [via] – Link. Related: Stop motion how-tos and projects – Link. Stop Motion Animation, the Easy Way… With iStopMotion, making Gumby is less pokey. MAKE 02 – Page 129.
DIY Pan jig side
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Shadowgolem writes – “Home made Panoramic Jig. Using 1/8 Alum. Just finished it this morning. It weighs 12.3 Oz with the Manfrotto CR2 plate attached. Cost about 35$ for all the parts (I went with stainess where I could) and I have enough Alum. left over to make a second […]
Super magnification camera
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Rautiocination is taking some super-close up photos… (here are the macro shots) – “an ungodly abomination, a EF 90-300 mm lens which is male to male filter coupled to a EF-S 18-55 lens …potential magnification is around 300 / 18 = ~16x (not taking into account non-full frame sensor, for […]
Homemade FigRig (a small DV camera stabilizer made from PVC)
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Method8 posted up an enhanced “FigRig” (a small DV camera stabilizer made from PVC) – “I used shygantic’s model and measurements to build mine. I included some enhancements so as to be able to use the camera’s remote control on the figrig. I used black PlastiK spray (like the one […]
