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Lying in bed one night reading a Photography eMag on my iPad I was drawn to a photography competition for a Picture in Picture. Instantly and idea shot into my head to use the iPad for a Picture in Picture photo where it appears as if the iPad screen is transparent. I decided that a shot of an apple on the kitchen table would keep the scene easy but also add a bit of reason.

The photo turned out well and after sharing it on Facebook one of my friends presented me with another challenge, to also include an iPhone in the photo giving it a third level. The iPad iPhone Picture in Picture was born.

I decided to make a self-portrait using the iPhone to display my eyes and the iPad to display the majority of my face (or as much of my big head as would fit). Click to continue ›

Tomer Jacobson is a rising star in Israel's photographic scene. He is the sole Hebrew translator of the Strobist Lighting 101 booklet and if you can read Hebrew you should definitely check out his blog.

In the following post he shares his experience with walking about with a camera in the shady parts of Tel-Aviv. Click to continue ›

Last weekend was kinda slow at work. No shoots, no planned meetings, no post work to do, No open bids. So what do you do? shoot!

I've seen plenty of food color in glass shots and wanted to make one of my own. I did.

In this post I'll share the process of making the photographs. Click to continue ›

when I was your age we used to squint/half squint to measure light!

OK, I am not that old. Actually my father didn't even take photographs beyond the average vacation on the beach photo.

Yet, there are times when you have to calculate exposure manually, or even harder, calculate flash settings. Mixing flash and ambient is no rocket science - to quote a certain DH. However, it seems that one of the issues that is hard on everyone is when to start in terms of aperture, shutter speed and flash output.

Photographer Domjan Svilkovic came up with a nifty little card that can help you do just that using the ultra highly modifiable yet super cheap YN460 strobe. I would go and say that it may be considered a printable flash meter. Seems that the low price is driving those to be very popular.

The card and instructions after the jump. Click to continue ›

We have featured iPhone getting some altitude on balloons before, yet we never featured an camera and an iPhone going into space.

The camera was pulled by a weather balloon 19 miles into space and back. Overcoming, extreme chill, strong winds and overwhelming speed. It would also have to land on outside water.

The experiment marked mission successful, with the pod surprisingly landing only 30 miles from launch spot.

Surprisingly, the iPhone was only tagging along as a GPS module.

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A long while back I read a semi-theoretical post about using a room corner and a brolli as a full-fledged setup.

As a preparation for an on location job I decided to test that premise, and took a few head shots at my basement studio.This will add up to the butterfly one light setup I reviewed earlier.

Mind you that this little setup can be brought up in any place that features a corner, that is just about anywhere. Click to continue ›

With Halloween just around the corner I thought that showcasing a nice scary photograph may be inspirational. Of course, since this is DIYP there's a hack in it. It is using an optically triggered hacked slave flash that was fitted in a Lantern.

Photographer Victor W used a small flash scavenged from a Kodak disposable camera to create a scary watch man photograph. (sorry victor, but watchman at night with threatening faces are scary, if you wanna see Victor's nice side see here). Click to continue ›

Steve Hermitage who made it a point to create and share wonderful photography home projects, like the bubble world that was featured here before, just released another great weekend project. So if he forecast is rainy and it looks like you are about to stay home. Get a bottle of wine and two glasses. one for you and one for the camera. Here is one fun project for this weekend.

Using a computer screen Steve created simple patterns which he then uses to shoot empty glasses of wine. The way the glass breaks and distorts the light creates interesting poppy patterns. Click to continue ›

The Dentsu London agency and Berg design consultancy came up with one of the most mind-blowing light painting movies I've seen.

A very simple recipe: Get a bunch of iPads and 3D software. CAT scan (or salami) each of the objects that you want to light paint in the frame. Repeat for every frame to get stop motion animation. Kinda hard to explain in text, instantly figured once seen in the video.

The result is very impressive, innovative and definitely worth the 5:30 minutes the video will take of your debugging/excelling/meeting time.

Rss readers, you may want to click through to see the video (or watch it directly here)

[Via the always excellent @jimgoldstein] Click to continue ›

Here is a clever thought: what if one could create a stop motion movie that combines thousands of frames each taken by a different photographer. Well, Blipfoto did just that.

They did this using a smart mechanism to keep the frames simple. Each frame constitutes 1/8 of a step. This way each eight photographs combine to create one step. Click to continue ›