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Steven Monteau has an impressive record as a pinhole camera builder. Last year we shared two pinhole tutorials that he made, one for The Battlefield Pinhole Camera and La Guillotine pinhole camera. Today, I wanna introduce you to Steven's third creation, THE JAW.

The unique thing about THE JAW, aside being a ridiculously cool homemade pinhole camera, is the fact that it uses masks to interfere with the pattern exposed on the film. (oh yea, it shoots on good ol' film).

The over-sized camera carries some other special features. It has an hidden space that carries spare masks, a tripod mount and a spectacular cable release controlled shutter made in the shape of a giant JAW. Click to continue ›

MRI is used to salami objects into small slices and get a better idea about what's inside them without breaking them open.

Cross section light painting is the exact reverse process where a photographer uses a set of images, each corresponding to a slice of the original object to recreate the salami. (OK, technically, it only recreates an image of that salami).

While it is not trivial to find such detailed slides images of the human body, there is a scientific foundation - The Visible Human Project - that aims at making such images accessible and shares two data set of such "slide" humans: A mail and a female.

Using a video composed of those images, Flickr user Andyleach recreated the body using light painting. Click to continue ›

Tilted plane cameras can control perspective in the same way (more or less) that a tilt-shift lens can do.(well, it's actually just the tilt part, the shift is something else). Tilt-sift is pretty common for dSLRs, either for professional use (like architectural photography), or as a fun add on, like the Lensbaby Spark. Amazingly, it works for pinhole cameras too. And we are going to show you how. Click to continue ›

One of the nice things about film is that you can bend it. Really when was the last time you say a sensor flex? The fact that film bends allows for some crazy stuff like film in a can cameras.

But Can Cameras are single-use and cumbersome s the film has to be loaded and removed in darkness and they need to load before each photo.

What if there was a way to make a can camera that takes regular film? And winds between shots? And takes 120 film for superb photo quality?

Enter the Hyperscope by Matt Abelson - a film camera machined from a bulk of Aluminum. And you know you want one!

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A few weeks ago Corrie White shared a tutorial on creating a spactacular bokeh for a water splash photograph. When I saw it, I immediately thought "hmm..... this may play nice with the Bokeh Masters Kit". So I asked Corrie if she wanted to experiment and play. She said yes. Yay!

A few weeks later Corrie sent me this wonderful photograph of a Bokehlicious background with a spectacular splash.

This is how Corrie explains it: Click to continue ›

Alan Sailer is a master of blowing up stuff. Last year Alan declared a war on Christmas ornaments and hit them with a pallet shot from an special homemade, high speed, air canon. But then he also hit just about anything with stuff shot from that air canon.

Now Alan has a new hobby worth noting. He explodes things with powerful firecrackers and captures the microsecond just after the explosion. Alan uses a deadly home-built strobes that have a very short exposure length and a DIYed debris detector. The results are interesting and freaking at the same time.

Here are some of the stuff that Alan exploded (click any of the images for more information): Click to continue ›

We've seen amazing nightly time lapse movies before and we've see amazing star trails photographs before (and we have definitely seen some incredible ISS footage (and shenanigans) before. But I don't think I've seen something just like this.

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When we talk about photographs we usually talk about how we Freeze Time or Capture The Moment. Still photography has become almost synonymous with describing an image that happens in a single moment in time.

So the photos we know capture space as we see it in a single moment in time. What if that was reversed, what if we chose to photograph a single location in space over a period of time? Click to continue ›

These photos are the results of such experimenting. I had nothing to do, and came across some high-speed drop and splash photos. I thought I give it a try, but it seemed boring and overdone by others, that's when fire popped in my mind.

Boutique carpenter Brian Grabski wanted to take moving shot of a set of drawers he built . To make things just a bit more interesting, had wanted some lilies to open up during the shot.

Well, you can't just make lilies open, these things take time... So Brian hooked up with Peter Kerwin and Josh Van Patter to set up a time lapse dolly connected to an Arduino board, a camera and an intervalometer and let it roll for four days at a time during a 2 weeks shooting period.

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