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Scanning Film Negatives With A DSLR – A Maker’s Guide
Well, lets just say I’ve gotten better at this over the last couple of years. The left image was one of the first I’ve “scanned”…
Bokeh Aliens Take Over The City
I am not really sure what’s going on in this video by Gramatik, but it seems that their bokeh experiment went out of control. Director…
Photographing a Solar Eclipse – Random Tips
For the folks who don’t have NASA on their RSS stream, this is a short announcement to remind about the upcoming Solar Eclipse on May…
Pixel Peeping Octodomes
I know the title says something about lighting modifiers, but after seeing the last installment of the slanted lens I figured I’d mess around with…
Blasting Stuff With A High Speed Air Canon
Alan Sailer likes to blow stuff up. And when I say blow stuff I mean the good old fashion way. With a canon, custom made…
(kinda) Crowdsourcing Bullet Time Dancers
It is amazing what you can do with a little vision, even if you are pretty tied by budgetary constraints. Nate Powers and his team…
Print Your Own Tilt-Shift Lens
A few weeks back I wrote about what rapid prototyping is doing to the traditional photography industry (well, any industry for that matter). So it…
The Lightplot Is A Lighting Painting Robot Evolving From Lego NXT
One of the more interesting things to see in this era (aside a healthy big mac) is an ongoing synergy between light painting and rapid…
Fridgetip – Use Your House Keys For Better Audio And Fresh Food
Today’s 60 seconds video is short and sweet. We share a tip on how you can use your house keys to help you rid of…
How Lee Filters Are Made
I always thought that the process of ND filter making is a pretty mechanical thing. That you would place a sheet of glass on one…

































