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.
Thanks to all of you who contributed comments to the iClone4 PRO drawing. Here are the winners: jojoguy10 blt hauntedpoet Earl Martin Pete (posted on March 29, 2010 at 11:29 AM) Vrex Jeff James Eric “irk” Hedman Girlstart Quib Congrats to you all! There were some awesome project ideas. I hope all of you that […]
A commenter on this morning’s letterpress dice printing post pointed me to this amazing video for British band Fujiya & Miyagi’s song “Ankle Injuries,” which is, apparently, animated from still photographs in which each individual frame has been built as a mosaic from a field of variously-colored and -rotated dice. [Thanks, Jeffrey!] More: Open source […]
With precious little time left in DIY Movie Making month here on Make: Online, I’d like to share with you this inexpensive solution to shock-related microphone noise. Behold Instructables user retrofilms’ PVC microphone shockmount! Check out all the great projects and tips from DIY Movie Making month!
Photojojo is now selling the new Keep Calm and Snap On prints ($15) for those of you shutter bugs out there. Each piece is printed on 13 X 19″ matte archival stock using recycled materials and availble in the four colors pictured above.
This week in the MAKE Flickr pool we saw: Arduino digicam by arms22, LED lighting PCB board etching by Joel Miller, Print-your-own 35mm pinhole camera by Francesco Capponi, Improving breadboard layout through practice by mrbbking, DIY digital view camera rig by FiveseveNp90, Spiderbot walking mechanism by Richard, Beatfeat by Arturo Vidich and Eric Mika, and […]
Here’s an interesting design for a camera bag where you don’t have to take the camera from the bag to shoot. I’m not really a photographer, so I’d like to hear what others think of this idea. Cloak Bag
I recently put together a small video studio in the guest bedroom (not sure how the in-laws will like this) and wanted to design a high-quality, low-budget lighting setup. I wanted a bright, diffuse key light (that’s the primary light off to one side and slightly higher than your head to illuminate the subject) and a slightly less bright, lower-angle fill light. Here’s what I came up with.
