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.
Given the responsibility of creating a photo booth for an annual work party, Pete Prodoehl from Rasterweb decided he wanted to use Sparkbooth, an Adobe AIR-based application that can turn a computer into a photo booth. Normally, a partygoer activates the software by pressing the spacebar on a keyboard. However, in order to simplify the […]
Check out the Photoshop steps our former creative director, Sean DallasKidd, took to accomplish the snowstorm in the MakeShift for MAKE Volume 26. Jen Siska was the photographer. On the day of the shoot, the sun unexpectedly came out. The shadows from the sun on the trees were too contrasty, and there was no snow […]
The folks over at Kogeto have a product on Kickstarter that looks very promising for 360 panorama fans. They’ve shrunk their Lucy camera technology down to fit on the back of an iPhone 4. The product, called Dot, produces still imagery and video that can be panned around in 360 degrees, allowing a greater number […]
Camera maker Kurt Mottweiler produces elegant pinhole cameras capable of capturing 90 degree panoramas on 120 film. A curved film plane assures even edge-to-edge exposures and the curvilinier perspective of a traditional panorama camera. [via retrothing]
This week’s collection of cool photos from the MAKE Flickr pool leads off with dreamexplorer’s “Cruisin'”, from Bay Area Maker Faire 2011. Other highlights include a sweet vintage vacuum tube in a custom laser-cut case and a beautiful forest landscape taken with a pinhole camera,
Lucky for those of us left behind, the fine folks at Maker Faire have been tagging their pictures and adding them to the MAKE Flickr pool. I see steam, lights, robots, festive Faire goers and more. If you aren’t able to make it to San Mateo this weekend, you can live vicariously through our fellow makers on site.
Michael Zheng of PetaPixel credits these beautiful photographs to one Duncan Meeder, whose personal web presence, if it exists, escapes my Googling. This example is identified as a Leica Tri-Elmar-M 28-35-50mm.
