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.

View from above Maker Faire

View from above Maker Faire

Paul Eastham was awesome enough to fly his homebuilt RV-9A aircraft around the Maker Faire airspace and snap a few choice pics of the event! See more in his Flickr photoset. Update:Another set of great aerial shots – Clif writes, Hi Makers, On our way home we took some shots from our rented Piper Arrow. […]

More amazing protos

More amazing protos

After seeing our previous proto pr0n post, Alberto wrote us pointing out the meticulous proto layouts from ChaN. Another great example of much of someone with obvious love for the craft, we’ve featured several of ChaN’s excellent AVR projects in the past – I’m still a big fan of the Wavetable Melody Generator code.

Protoboard pr0n

Protoboard pr0n

A stroll through Eric Archer’s synth prototype photoset reveals some of the most awesomely intricate specimens of DIY electronics I’ve ever come upon. I do believe I’m experiencing solder-envy. Seen above is his modified recreation of the TR-808 Rhythm Composer’s rimshot/clave circuit. I had the chance to snap a quick macro shot of Eric’s touring […]

New Blog: Photographer Sheri Giblin

Thanks to Ali, I am loving San Francisco based photographer, Sheri Giblin’s new blog. Sheri photographs food for such publishers as Chronicle Books. You’ll want to not only eat and drink the food but you’ll find yourself wanting to take better photos. Keep checking back as she takes you to her various photo shoots and […]