DIY Panorama Rig
Pete Prodoehl’s panoramic head is made out of scrap wood and L-brackets Pete had lying around. The bottom photo, showing Milwaukee Makerspace, is an example of a photo Pete took with it.
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Two New Woodworking How-Tos on Make: Projects
We’ve just posted two awesome woodworking pieces on Make: Projects by our resident woodworing guru, Len Cullum. They show you, step by step, how to build a set of low horses (think no-legged saw horses) and how to fix cracks in wood stock with decorative butterfly splines. These two projects were part of our Woodworking theme in February.
How-To: Cinemagraphs
While animated GIFs have been around for a while, they’ve recently been adopted by photographers to add small amounts of looping motion to otherwise still images. It’s no wonder they’ve been seen all over the web lately, as the result is often a quite entrancing moving photograph. If you’re interested in making your own, Photojojo […]
Make: Live Episode 11: Photo and Video (preview video)
Join us Wednesday evening for the next episode of Make: Live, our streaming show and tell! Ep11 is all about photography and video. We’ll be giving you a behind-the-scenes look at how we put together Make: Live and Matt Griffin from MakerBot will show us how they make their timelapse movies of 3D printers doing […]
Food Sculptor Ray Villafane Shares Pumpkin Carving Tips
Artist Ray Villafane talks about his work and shares tips for creating your own cut-above pumpkins.
DIY Semi-Anamorphic Pinhole Camera
Check out this DIY semi-anamorphic pinhole camera from maker Costas Kaounas. Easy assembly from cardboard and black tape, the camera shoots 35mm film across an arch to capture a slightly semi-anamorphic image. [via DIYP]
This Camera Mod Adds Sightseeing Silhouettes
Here’s a rather simple and creative film camera hack from San Francisco-based photographer, Ian Tuttle: He glued a pair of 1/8″ figurines inside of a Diana F+ medium format toy camera to cast a shadow onto the film when the exposure is made. The result is a set of spectator silhouettes gracing every frame. Four […]
