Arduino powered laser trigger for your camera
You can make a camera trigger without a micro controller, but this system allows you to easily add sensors or variable timers, amking it a lot more flexible. [Thanks Haje]
Photography
Panning time lapse using a kitchen timer
Flickr user rtadlock made this stylish panning timelapse camera using an old kitchen timer, and it came out beautifully!
Colorful Silhouettes Collage
I’m utterly charmed by these fun colorful silhouettes from Katie Sokoler of Color Me Katie. Las summer, she shared how to create silhouettes in more interesting poses than the classic profile view of the face. Her twist on doing everything with colored paper really makes me smile. Enjoy!
Flashback: Infrared photography
MAKE Volume 12 hit newsstands in November of 2007 and featured a special themed section called Upload, focused on digital arts and crafts. Richard Kadrey offered this cool little tutorial on getting started with infrared photography. Enjoy! You can also still pick up a back issue of MAKE Volume 12 over in the Maker Shed. […]
Movie: Manufactured Landscapes
While we’re on the subject of great Maker-movies, I feel obliged to mention Jennifer Baichwal’s documentary Manufactured Landscapes, which is a survey of the work of Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky, whose métier is finding beauty in the midst of environments radically altered by human activity. If you watch no further than the first shot, you will have seen one of the most amazing takes I’ve ever seen in any movie, ever: It’s an eight minute tracking shot of a Chinese factory floor that just goes on and on and on, and you keep thinking “This place can’t be that big; this shot has to end soon.” And it doesn’t. And the images of the ship-breaking beach at Chittagong, Bangladesh, are like something out of a post-apocalyptic video game. Beautiful and frightening.
Amazing model landscape photography
This is not, in fact, an actual volcano. It is, rather, the work of Matthew Albanese, a photographer who builds meticulously detailed landscape models and then lights and shoots them to achieve amazing realism. You can view more of his work here. My personal favorite is the Martian landscape made from paprika and charcoal. [via Neatorama]
Stunning images of space taken from a shed
Here’s a great story in the Telegraph about an amateur stargazer who tricked out his garden shed in the U.K. and surprised professional astronomers around the world with his top-notch images.
