Photography & Video

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.

Design Studio Q+A: Volume Inc.

Wrapping up this month’s Design Studio tour we have the independently minded design company, Volume Inc., comprised of Adam Brodsley and Eric Heiman. Eric and Adam met while teaching at San Francisco’s California College of the Arts. They founded Volume “at the dawn of the new millennium” and the rest is history. Living history, that […]

Exposing Photographs With Your Laptop Screen

I’m fascinated by the process for creating these ghostly photographs that are featured over on Photojojo. Aditya Mandayam developed this exciting new way of making prints: press photo-paper against your laptop screen, flash the screen, and dip the paper in developer, stop, and fix. Read more about these Laptopograms on Photojojo and view more of […]

How-To: Create Great Kids Photos

By Susannah Bothe Taking great photographs of your child is something that every parent wants to do, but is not necessarily an easy task! Some of the tips here reiterate what I wrote in my previous how-to on baby photography because these elements hold true for all of photography, so I will include them in […]

MAKE Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup

MAKE Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup

MAKE Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup This week in the MAKE Flickr pool we saw: Testing prototype with real brass bell (video) by lilspikey, DIY: lm75 mounted on espresso boiler by linux-works, LED Orbit by High Performance Double Pendulum by yamamo2, Synth for Marc’s birthday by crayxax, and Inside a DL330M Led / 9 + dot […]