Etsy Photography Tips
Heidi Adnum gives some fantastic photography pointers in her two part series on Etsy. Learn to use backgrounds, props, and scale in part 2, and color, light, and reflection in part 1.
Photography
How-To: Build a star-tracker for your camera
The best stellar photography requires long exposure times to capture the dimmer stars. The problem with long exposures of the night sky, of course, is that it moves. Or rather, it appears to move. So if you don’t have some way of keeping your camera pointed at the same location over the course of the exposure, you get “trailing.” Eric Chesak built this impressive star-tracking camera mount bracket and won a Design News contest back in March with it.
How-To: Create Beautiful Baby Photos
By Susannah Bothe Capturing either fast-moving or often sleeping babies with our cameras can be a challenge. As a photographer specializing in all forms of family portraiture, I share some useful tips below on how to photograph your precious little ones. Topics discussed in this how-to include the following: set-up, lighting, composition, camera settings and […]
Homages to Escher’s “Drawing Hands”
Uppermost, what I’m pretty sure is a rendering of a virtual Lego model called Brick by Brick, by graphic designer Ian Leino. Immediately above, MC MECHANIC, by photographer Shane Willis.
Skateboard Paper Cut Animation
Tilles Singer made this skateboard animation with “a ton of digital photos, a ton of real life magazines, an hour of recording music.” Skaters do tricks off of books and papercraft landscapes. [via @fi5e]
Lissy Laricchia: Get Back In Your Book
July is Design & Photography month on Craftzine. And while I know we have 2 more days of June, I couldn’t resist sharing Canadian photographer Lissy Laricchia and her fantastical shots of various fictional characters getting sucked back into their literary origins. Can you guess who’s who? Here’s a hint, clockwise from top left: she […]
CRAFT Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup
This week in the CRAFT Flickr pool we saw: Blossom Sonobe by Kalami, Mini Raptor Cufflinks by Giant Eye, Peg by skudfisher, and St. George flip doll by wilsonlaura.
