The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for creating and editing digital photos and videos, as well as how to make your own still and video cameras.
My old pal, Bay Area shutterbug Billy Baque, has a passion for the handmade, low-tech, all-in-one cameras-plus-darkrooms used by street photographers around the world. The so-called Cuban Polaroid is a typical example—a wooden box with a light-tight sleeve for the photographer’s arm at one end and a lens on the other. Billy describes the typical […]
Last week in the MAKE Flickr pool we saw… My First PCB from barnoid. Ferrofluid #3 from Mr. Bell. Repairing My Saw::Finished from Digitallizm. Complete dome view from hudson. [Untitled] from C.Filipowski. Glass Rain detail from Jenine Bressner. And the final batch works as well from .:madworm:..
Here are some cool things we saw in the CRAFT Flickr Pool this week: Goal List Tutorial, by cornflowerbluestudio pompon pretty, by pilli pilli [361mais5] 42. Organizar fotos, by …com Lola Friendly hedgehog felt brooch, by hanaletters Jr. Cheeseburger, by Katie Aaberg
Dennis Manarchy seeks to capture these “Vanishing Cultures” before they disappear, using his handmade 35′ long, 12′ tall, and 8′ wide camera, whose bellows and body resemble an old view camera.
I’ve admired the work of UK AFoL Peter Reid, aka Flickr user Legoloverman, for a long time. His turtle model, shown to right, is one of my favorite fan-designed Lego models, ever. It doesn’t use a lot of elements, but they’re very carefully thought out. And now he’s gone and arranged them like pieces of […]
Martin Klimas places paint upon a translucent material, underneath which is a speaker. When music is played, the carefully selected mixtures of paint explode from the surface, reaching upward and intertwining. Klimas captures these events photographically and mates each photo to the piece of music that created it (the one below is Kraftwerk’s “Transistor”).
If you’re looking for an interesting project for your DSLR camera, you might find the DIY Tilt-Shift lens from Flickr user Maciej Pietuszynski to be worthy of your weekend project time. Maciej’s version uses a shower head and rubber glove in addition to a 50mm/1.8 prime lens. If you’re comfortable cutting a pipe with a hacksaw and disassembling a perfectly good lens, you can pull off this build. The images a lens like this produces more than makes up for the time it takes to assemble.
