Crazy Rolling Shutter World Captured by Camera Attached to Helicopter Rotor
You’ve probably seen videos showing the rolling shutter effect turning airplane …
You’ve probably seen videos showing the rolling shutter effect turning airplane …
YouTube user smithje77 and his dog recently embarked on a cross-country road trip …
After moving into their new dorm room, Caleb Ungewitter and his roommate Kyle decided that their walls looked too empty, so they decided to decorate it with a photo. Not just any photo, mind you, but a gigantic do-it-yourself print of a beautiful city skyline. Using a free program called The Rasterbator, they converted the photograph into 152 separate frames, which they printed out themselves and attached to the wall in a grid.
Forget model airplanes… This Plamodel snap model kit is the one to buy if you’re a photo-enthusiast (or want …
Last year we featured the work of Matthew and William Burrard-Lucas, two brothers who mounted their Canon …
University of Oregon student and photography-enthusiast Jeremy Blanchard shot this creative engagement photo for two of his long-time friends.
You’ve probably photographed your own reflection in sunglasses before, but have you ever captured a reflection of yourself shooting …
Norwegian design studio Skrekkøgle -- the one that printed a photo with a cremated dog -- has a creative project called "Big Money" in which they made a giant 20:1 replica of a 50 cent Euro coin. They then placed the coin next to large objects and photographed them together, making the objects look like tiny toy replicas.
Here's a mind-bending video in which someone created the famous checker shadow illusion in real life. The optical illusion takes advantage of the way our brains process lighting and shadows.
As with many so-called illusions, this effect really demonstrates the success rather than the failure of the visual system. The visual system is not very good at being a physical light meter, but that is not its purpose. The important task is to break the image information down into meaningful components, and thereby perceive the nature of the objects in view. [#]
Interesting huh? Our eyes aren't very good as a light meters, since they're easily deceived by context.
When Matthew Harrison (aka The Leica Guy) got married recently, he was given the awesome gift of a f/.95 Noctilux ring.
Last week we published a post asking whether anyone had made a “print” on their skin by …
When his friend Tom Offer-Westort decided to shave off his hair and massive beard, …
It took Steven Silton two hours and 150 tries to capture this amazing photograph of a water drop showing an MC Escher painting.
Flickr user Rachel Carrier captured this photo of her awesome Polaroid tattoo on …
Here’s yet another example of the crazy visual effects found on today’s TV shows — this time …
Design studio Woouf! takes different objects and creates epically cool beanbag chairs out …
Don’t want people using photos of your private island without permission? Watermark it! Billionaire …
Here’s a concept for you to play around with over the weekend: give your shadow a real camera to …
Kyle Jones wanted to see what it was like to film from inside …
Now here's an interesting way to capture the passing of an entire day in a single photograph. It's composed of 24 shots -- one per hour -- with no photo manipulation needed!
While on vacation in Ohio, Flickr user Greg Smith spotted and …
Tina Roth Eisenberg, AKA swissmiss, has just launched an online temporary tattoo store …
Last year map geek Eric Fischer created heat maps showing where Flickr photos are taken in large cities and comparing tourist vs. local hotspots. Now he's back again with beautiful maps showing geotagged Flickr photos and Twitter Tweets, and the maps aren't limited to cities -- there's maps for continents (see North America above) and even the whole world! The orange dots show photos, the blue ones indicate Tweets, and a white one means both were found in that location.
Remember that super realistic Leica M3 paper pinhole camera we featured back in June? You can now …
Did you know that the original Star Wars lightsaber was made using antique camera parts? If you have an old Speed Graphic press camera, you may even have a replica lightsaber sitting on your shelf without knowing it.
For photo enthusiasts, Google’s new Google+ social network is something like Flickr mixed with Facebook. It has the social …
Street photographer Eric Kim generated some buzz last month by recording …
When Lomography teamed up with Threadless for a t-shirt design contest back in …
Five years ago, web designer Matthew McVickar decided to give one lucky disposable camera a free vacation, sending it through the mail from Cape Cod, Massachusetts to Honolulu, Hawaii with the instructions "Take a photo before you pass it on!". When he got the camera back, there were seven photographs taken by various workers in the United States Postal Service that show the cameras journey (and the inner workings of the USPS!).
Earlier this week the New York Times was lent a mysterious photo album that contained 214 photos of Nazi Germany, including images taken just feet away from Hitler. There was no indication of who the photographer was, so the Lens blog decided to publish some of the photos and crowdsource the task of solving the mystery.
A company called Lytro has just launched with $50 million in funding and, unlike Color, the technology is pretty mind-blowing. It's designing a camera that may be the next giant leap in the evolution of photography -- a consumer camera that shoots photos that can be refocused at any time. Instead of capturing a single plane of light like traditional cameras do, Lytro's light-field camera will use a special sensor to capture the color, intensity, and vector direction of the rays of light (data that's lost with traditional cameras).
[...] the camera captures all the information it possibly can about the field of light in front of it. You then get a digital photo that is adjustable in an almost infinite number of ways. You can focus anywhere in the picture, change the light levels — and presuming you’re using a device with a 3-D ready screen — even create a picture you can tilt and shift in three dimensions. [#]
Try clicking the sample photograph above. You'll find that you can choose exactly where the focus point in the photo is as you're viewing it! The company plans to unveil their camera sometime this year, with the goal of having the camera's price be somewhere between $1 and $10,000...
We shared a video of Canon’s Image Stabilization technology in action in the beginning of the year, …
What if you could take perfect group photographs by first shooting multiple frames and then selecting the best portions …
Hacker Rob Flickenger wasn’t satisfied with ordinary …
Photographer Gary Cruz is one lucky dude — not only did he get …
Photographer Ian Richardson made this paper camera out of the novel Hard Times by Charles Dickens, with a small glass pot serving as the lens.
Here's a neat photo project for you to try: find a friend who loves photography just as much as you do, and share a roll of film. After one person finishes using up a roll, rewind it and send it to the other person. That's what photographers Lexi and Natalie did with their project Exposed Far Away.
With HD video cameras getting smaller and smaller, people are constantly attaching them to random things to give us …
Photographer Matthew Nicholson created this paper Leica M3 that's a working pinhole camera. It's loaded with 35mm film, and even the strap is realistic and made with paper!
How do camera makers describe their cameras? To answer this question, we took the press releases of some popular cameras and made word clouds with them that are based on the number of occurrences of non-common words. The above word cloud is for the Canon 5D Mark I.