MAKE Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup
Check out this week’s highlights from the MAKE Flickr pool!
Photography
CRAFT Flickr Pool Weekly Roundup
This week in the CRAFT Flickr Pool, we saw: Food Rings, by Kawaii Fabric and Paper Angry Birds Crochet Dolls, by deadcraft Ruzica Handmade Necklace, by Rrradionica Papercut design, by ciasteczkowapotfora
Replacing a Busted Camera Screen
Somehow the screen on my digital camera got busted. Since the ill-fated, and mysterious demise of the back display, I’ve been limited to using the viewfinder. Last week, I finally got fed up with not being able to take a picture without my eye jammed into the cup. Since I use my left eye to compose, and just about every camera on the planet is designed for right-eyed people, it has never been convenient to look through a viewfinder anyway. Add eyeglasses to the mix and external screens definitely work better.
Simple Tools for Better Food Photography
I always love looking at the beautiful bento images on Wendolonia. Wendy Copley packs visually-pleasing lunches each day for her sons, and she documents them as an ongoing project. In this post, she shares some really helpful and easy methods she uses to get great food images with minimal set-up. Her kids even help with […]
How-To: Make Cinemagraphs
Image by Jamie Beck and Kevin Burg, via Juxtapoz Thanks to Matt Richardson’s post on MAKE, I’m fascinated by cinemagraphs, which are still images containing a little bit of looping motion. (If you’re familar with animated GIFs, this is something similar, but a bit more refined.) NYC-based photographers Jamie Beck and Kevin Burg are doing […]
Frankensteintax Camera
Flickr user AM RADIO created a whole new breed of camera when he hooked a 1917 Series III Kodak 127 to his Pentax K10D. He dubbed the result Frankensteintax, and it actually works! The modern camera shoots through the antique lens, and results are pretty stunning. Here’s a link to his full set on Flickr: […]
DIY Laser-cut Camera
The KDS-POTO2 camera by Kit Man of kit da studio is over the top. Assembled from laser-cut acrylic parts and scavenged lenses, this fully functional manual film camera takes interesting pictures reminiscent of an analog Hipstamtic or DIY Lomo and seems like it would be a blast to assemble.
