Making animations with light painting
Think making still pictures using light drawing is tough? Check out this impressive animated video for the song Lucky by All India Radio, made by Dee Pee Studios.
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.
Cafeteria Tray Picture Frame
By Jennifer Perkins For baby’s first Christmas you have to do something extra special. I had visions of pictures sitting on Santa’s lap, but alas with a serious crowd aversion and a touch of Swine Flu paranoia I skipped the mall. Instead I decided to deck my daughter Tallulah out in her Christmas duds and […]
Camera blast shield takes a beating
From the MAKE Flickr Pool Vinmarshall posted this pic of his “bomb-proof” camera blast shield – and despite some limited flammability, the tough enclosure seems to live up to its name – Check out the full how-to on PopSci.
If Tesla had a Christmas tree
Prepare you house for a visit from Jolly old St. Nikola with this Tesla Christmas Tree, by artist Peter Terren.
How-To: Build your own panoramic film camera
Over at Fun Science Gallery, this English translation of a 2002 article by Giorgio Carboni describing, in great detail, the construction of this beautiful homemade rotating-objective panoramic film camera. It’s made of brass and plastic stock. [Thanks, Billy Baque!]
Futurepicture, a homebrew light field camera
Ever take a photograph, and realize after the fact that you focused on a tree in the background instead of your subject’s face? Wish you could go back and fix it?
How-To: Build your own field camera
British camera restorer Rayment Kirby has a cool tutorial on how (and why) to make your own antique-style field camera from wood and brass. Mr. Kirby seems to follow the convention that the “Field” of “field camera” is an eponym and should be capitalized, whereas the Wikipedia article does not. Can anyone clarify? Was there a “Mr. Field?” Or a “Mrs. Field?” [Thanks, Billy!]
