Andrew Odewahn of Cambridge, MA wrote this helpful tutorial for creating your own stereoscopic images. In wiggle stereoscopy, the 2 images are aligned so that the “subject” overlaps, and then the right and left images are alternated quickly. Past a certain frequency, the brain interprets the alternations as parallax motion, which creates the illusion of […]
Make Your Own Six-Month Duration Images of the Sun’s Path Across the Sky, Justin writes – Pinhole photography suffers the illusion that, as its science is simple, it should be easy to master. In practice, creating an effective pinhole image requires learning many variables including: hole size, exposure times, digital vs analog and focal length–all […]
In this video and at this site, annoyingly good-looking Swedish videographer Jonathan Bergqvist details the construction of this clever shoulder-mount device for shooting video with a DSLR. Designed by Jonathan and his father Erik, the rig itself is made out of birch and includes a manual focus puller, actuated by twisting the left handle, that is hacked together from R/C control rod parts and a hose clamp.
I have been reading the Picture of the Day feed from Wikimedia Commons for about a month, now, and it is fast becoming one of the best parts of my daily newsreader experience. Every day there’s a gorgeous new publicly-licensed photograph pre-selected for quality by a vote amongst Wikimedia community members.
That’s how I happened upon the work of German inorganic chemist and photographer alchemist-hp (English-language page). She or he takes amazing photographs of element, mineral, and chemical samples and has a stated goal (badly translated by yours truly) “to create special pictures of all naturally occurring elements.”
As a designer, I have a great love as well as a professional need for visual lexicons. Type faces, illustration, ephemera, old signage — you name it, I collect it. Textures are no different. It’s not infrequent that a texture is needed for a design project, and what better way to amass a royalty-free collection […]
Flickr user 0olong added a 1/4″ screw to the top of a homemade wooden staff to create this handy camera staff.
This week in the CRAFT Flickr pool we saw: a wonky anna maria horner string quilt by filminthefridge, pixie nephews by Mamasha_Gent, bow by lucinda reemi turandot, and crochet big octopus legs by micanenco.
