DIY FlashBender
If you’d like to get more control over you flash and a regular bounce card doesn’t cut it, then try this handy DIY FlashBender by Bob Jordan.
If you’d like to get more control over you flash and a regular bounce card doesn’t cut it, then try this handy DIY FlashBender by Bob Jordan.
The geniuses at Photojojo (who brought you the awesome camera lens coffee mug) have come up with another brilliantly fun photography gift. These tiny replica DSLR cameras come complete with interchangeable lenses. This rare and tiny gem is a superbly detailed and a very real-looking 1/6 scale model of your own life-sized DSLR with every […]
I’ve been looking for an excuse to build one of these clever tamper-detecting switches for a long time. When a mystery critter recently started raiding the fresh catnip I grow outside as a treat for my indoors-only cat, I saw my opportunity. Sure, I could’ve bought or borrowed a commercial trail camera, or hacked a PIR motion detector circuit, or set up an IR webcam with software-level motion detection, but I’ve long been charmed by the simple low-tech design of the ball-in-cage switch.
Lex Augusteijn‘s high speed photographs are taken at the (relatively) glacially slow shutter speed of 1/10th of a second. By rights the bullet shouldn’t even be in the frame. He controls the camera, flash, and gun with a laptop, giving him great results with a relatively slow speed setup. Lex described the process on Digital […]
Kami at Make and Takes shows how to whip up some of these fun chalkboard speech bubbles that can be used as props for all kinds of photographs. Related: How-To: Mini Chalkboards
This week in the CRAFT Flickr pool we saw: triple dill pickles by rachel is coconut&lime, Embroidered loom part drawing by Cross-stitch ninja, Funnel Cake by ChrisCreatures, and 4-color print by k.mackay.