Here's a fun idea: take famous landscape paintings and add a tilt-shift effect to them! This series of images was created by Artcyclopedia using famous Van Gogh paintings. We love how the selective focus gives the paintings a new dimension.
Look at the above photos. Now look again. The photos are now diamonds! Notice anything? When I saw these photos the first time, it actually took me a few seconds to realize what was going on. I think it was a case of change blindness. Switcheroo is a fun project by Hana Pesut in which she has two people take two photos where they switch places while everything else remains the same -- including the clothes!
Texas A&M graduate student Roman Kogan has written an interesting program that turns your webcam into scanner camera.
This program turns your webcam into a scanner camera, similar to the ones used to record photo finishes, but much, much, much slower. With it, you can create images like the ones on this page with ease and with no digital manipulation! It works by taking one pixel line at a time and arranging those slices in a line to produce the image. Thus one dimension of the image is spacial, and the other is temporal.
This photograph results from exposing a pinhole camera while it’s spinning around on a record player. A simple yet …
Photojojo just added the “Mini Model Camera” to their store. This is a …
The cute photo above of a surprise photo booth proposal is making its arounds around the Internets right now. Angela writes on her blog,
These are the pictures from when we got engaged. I have no idea in frames one and two and am really confused in frame three (lets never make that face again!) and really surprised in frame four.
Turns out the idea of popping the question unexpectedly in a photo booth in order to capture the resulting (priceless) expression is quite popular.
British musician Robbie Williams was recently featured in Nikon's "I AM NIKON" advertising campaign, with a commercial showing a fun experiment he did at a concert in 2003. He asked his audience to pull out their cameras and, on his cue, fire off the flash. The resulting scene was pretty awesome to behold. The full clip of the experiment is above.
Roberts Birze, known as thescatteredimage on Flickr, has a neat set called "scattered images" in which he creates surreal panoramas by combining a large number of digital photographs taken of a particular scene:
Here's a neat birthday card idea for the Polaroid or photography lovers in your life: make a hand-drawn Polaroid camera spit out a real instant photo! Kayla Davis received this card from her friend Chrissie for her 19th birthday.
The Spinner 360º is a new plastic camera by Lomography that lets you …
Here’s a fun story that might convince you to snap all the photos you can of your kids: Alex and …
Here’s a funny twist on the popular “most interesting man in the world” …
“Skateboardanimation” is a creative video by Tilles …
peekfreak is a collaborative project between industrial designer Wai Lam and experimental photographer …
It's nice to see that Adobe's corporate culture allows for some "self-deprecating fun". Yesterday Photoshop product manager John Nack posted the above video, in which a "Photoshop fan" starts an Apple-esque waiting line outside what appears to be a Best Buy.
Laptopograms give “taking a screenshot” a new …
If you use a Mac, you’ve probably taken strange photographs of yourself using the fun house distortion effects that …
Google recently added high-quality street level photographs to …
This might be old news for some of you, but I just came across it so I’m guessing many …
This amazing pinhole camera is so small that it’s amazing it actually works.
Here's an interesting behind-the-scenes video series that shows the creation of a Canon 500mm f/4.0L IS lens. It's a neat look at the guts of glass, and an opportunity to see how exactly the various components of a lens are created and put together.
photobattle.me is a fun little web application that pits two submitted photographs against each other and asks the visitor to vote on which photo they think is better. Of course it's entirely subjective, and photos can be of different types and flavors, but it's an interesting way to see what the general public thinks of your work compared to other photos.
We’ve featured a couple posts on cakes shaped like Canon cameras recently, while Nikon has …
The Chobi Mini Digital Camera is an uber-compact digital camera that captures both …
4am Project is an ambitious project with a simple concept: have everyone take photographs at a particular time on a particular date, and pool them together on the Internet to share our unique perspectives on the world.
Here’s a fun little tilt-shift, time-lapse video by The Bitter*Girls showing a sumo …
Hot on the heels of the latest Canon coffee mug craze, here’s another fun item for you …
Francesco Capponi (Dippold on Flickr) has a fun printable template for creating your own nifty-looking 35mm pinhole camera.
Here's the latest innovation from Pentax: a puppet body for your lens cap! The "Cameraman" is a handmade puppet body that comes with a 52mm lens cap showing a smiley face. It costs ¥2,914, or about $32, and is only available for a limited amount of time.
Japanese company Green House recently released the Mini Digi, an “ultra-compact” digital camera that fits on your keychain. This …
There's a new video on YouTube showing a gigantic shipping container camera promoting a Samsung camera. In the video, bystanders can actually use the "camera" by inserting some money into a coin slot, and then having someone jump onto the massive shutter button on top of the shipping container. The resulting photograph is then displayed on a gigantic screen atop a nearby building.
Canon was handing out coffee mugs that look like the Canon 70-200mm L series lens at the Vancouver Olympic …
At the beginning of the month we featured a creative lamp …
Looking for a neat new way to show off your photographs? Foldplay has a cool web application that can help you print and fold your very own kaleidocycle, a moving paper sculpture that turns endlessly.
3D technology was featured somewhat prominently this year at CES, with companies unveiling televisions …
LEGO recently released a free iPhone app that turns your photographs into photomosaics made with 1x1 LEGO pieces. The app obviously isn't limited to faces, but can turn anything into a LEGO mosaic.
FlickrPoet is a neat little web-app built by …