Mike Hollingshead is a storm chasing photographer, check out his incredible galleries of storms, tornados, hurricanes and weather gone wild – 2004 seems to be the “stormyist” – “24 sets of images. 2004 was hands down the craziest spring for storm chasers to chase during. There are rather wild looking storms in this section. I […]
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Whiteoakart’s DIY macro set up – “Ingredients: Fabricating a system for extreme close-up. PVC tube connector: 64 cents. Clip-on LED: $6.99. Lens from broken Olympus Stylus: free. Masonite: free. Screw: free (Pictured here) The complete setup. The clip can swivel a bit to get a better angle and, of course, […]
The latest Citizen Scientist has a short how-to on making a telephoto lens from a spotting scope – “You can make a telephone lens for your camera with a spotting scope and a center-slotted aluminum bracket… The camera is attached to the bracket with a bolt that fits the camera’s tripod mount. The spotting scope […]
Biomedical Image awards 2006 gallery is up with an amazing collection of the microscopic, who knew bread mold could look so good! – “The fruiting body of bread mould. As the mould grows, it propagates itself by forming spores that are released into the environment and grow into new mould colonies. Colour-enhanced scanning electron micrograph […]
Nym writes “Turn an old pair of glasses and a $14 philips digital camera into an eyetap to take pictures from your perspective.” – Link.
DIY helmet cam – “The helmet-cam is useful anytime you want video but you don’t want to use a hand or second video-person on the project. We use ours to record the designing and building of HowToons projects. It can be an invaluable anlysis and learning tool for rapid prototyping.” – Link.
Matthijs writes – “For about $60, you can build a camera crane for a lightweight videocamera. The nifty thing about this design is that you can not only move crane up and down and rotate it, but you can also pan and tilt the camera. Plus, it’s pretty lightweight and can be easily disassembled and […]
