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.
Over on O’Reilly Answers, Andrew Odewahn offers up a technique and a Processing script for creating “true” 3D photographs using anaglyphic stereoscopy. I tried these images on my 3D glasses and they look great. DIY 3D photography with Processing
Via Dinosaurs and Robots come these amazing pictures of a derelict machine shop in the mountains of North Carolina. “No one on the mountain can remember it being open” says the Mondo-Blogo author who snapped the pics. It looked like, one day possibly in the 1960s or 70s, that they just up and closed without […]
This clever $30 setup is basically a Targus TG-MP6710 monopod with a large PVC base for it. The base lets it work as a stabilizer, and the fact that it’s on a pole lets you use it as a boom. You can also flip it upside down so the camera is close to the ground […]
It was a wooden box with the bellows and lens from a folding camera mounted at one end with a complete darkroom inside. Using photographic printing paper the photographer would expose a sheet of paper for the negative, develop, stop, and fix it inside the camera, then put a copy stand on the camera and photograph the negative (to obtain a positive), develop, stop, and fix, then wash the final print in a coffee can of water attached to his homemade tripod.
This week in the MAKE Flickr pool we saw lots of awesome things.
Marco Jetti’s intervalometer triggers a still camera’s shutter at regular intervals (hence the name) using a 555 timer. The movie is made up of 985 photos shot 10 seconds apart. Schematics on Marco’s Flickr page.
This week in the CRAFT Flickr pool we saw: Workin on Mumm Ra by loveandasandwich, Rain II, Messenger Bird, Secret Belgian Binding Balsa Wood Notebook by askida, fresh cherry mascarpone waffles by rachel is coconut&lime, and Cotton boll earrings by jewelera.etsy.com.
