While adding movement to time-lapse videos is cool, the special equipment (e.g. dollies, cranes, etc...) you need can be pricey. Derek Mellott couldn't afford to shell out hundreds of bucks for a dolly, so he decided to make his own using things found in his garage. His resulting setup included tripods, a cable management tray, a TI-calculator as an intervalometer, and a BBQ rotisserie motor to slowly pull the camera along.
Once your lenses get to a certain level of awesomeness, you have to start carrying them like bazookas. Can …
If you're a fan of lo-fi images produced by plastic or pinhole camera, you don't have to carry around multiple cameras or lenses. The "Subjectiv" lens give you four shooting modes in one lens and is compatible with Nikon and Canon.
For his "In Transit" series, Diego Kuffer takes multiple photographs of scenes, then creates neat-looking composite images afterwards. Kuffer tells us,
The idea behind the series is all about time, but in a more condensed way, also known as "moments". I wanted to capture a moment with photography, but it only allowed me to get instants. So I decided to use the idea behind the movie making techniques (a great way of capturing moments) and apply it to photography. So, I took several snapshots of the same scene, sliced them horizontally and vertically, and assembled them in to a single one, chronologically. I like to think about these grammar as Chrono Cubism.
Back in August 2010, Friskies selected 25 cats around the country and gave …
It's always fun thinking about what photography will be like in the future, and the direction camera technology will go. What's even cooler is seeing these ideas turned into concept drawings or videos. The Capture180 is a concept camera by Lucas Ainsworth that takes a 180° hemispheric photograph with each exposure in addition to the ordinary, framed photograph. When viewing the photographs with the camera, you can "knock" the camera into a viewing mode in which it acts as a small window into the giant scene that was captured.
Pummelvision is a neat little website that aims to help you see your …
If you’re planning to give any gifts to photography-enthusiasts this Christmas, you can try adding a little awesomeness to …
The concept of hyperfocal distance is used in landscape photography to achieve the greatest depth …
Wanna give a unique present this Christmas? If you have two portraits of a particular friend (head-on and profile), …
This strange looking device is the Leica S1, the first digital camera created …
Apparently airplanes travel a little too fast for the satellites that provide photos for Google Maps. It happened to …
The people behind camera comparison and recommendation website snapsort have just launched …
How far can you go in protecting your gear before people start thinking you have serious issues? We're not exactly sure, but the guy in the photo above probably crossed that line quite a few filters ago. Thankfully (or sadly, depending on how you see it) the guy isn't actually an uber-paranoid photographer, but just someone from the BorrowLenses team having a little fun.
onOneSoftware’s DSLR Camera Remote is a convenient way to control your camera remotely …
Zebra Imaging is a company that creates amazing 3D holographic prints called ZScapes, …
You know how you can never manage to frame people properly when taking self-portraits of you and your …
Last week we shared the awesome fact that chickens have image stabilized heads. If you’ve been wondering …
64-year-old photographer David Hoffman has been awarded £30,000 and given an apology by the Metropolitan police after having five …
You may have heard that the Canon 5D Mark II has been used to film an episode of "House" on FOX. Now NBC is using a 7D for an upcoming Christmas episode of "Community". On Thursday, Dec. 9th, 2010, they're going old school and doing a Rudolph-esque claymation episode.
There’s a photography joke that goes, “If you saw a man drowning and you could either save him or photograph …
The LoopIt is a new camera sling by Luma designed to be smaller, lighter, and more affordable than the Luma Loop. Both slings use a lanyard and connector that slide along the camera strap and connect to cameras via any available strap mount point. The push-to-release swivels are manufactured at the same factory that invented the swivel used by the US military, with tolerances that supposedly exceed the ones used in combat.
Here's an easy to follow video in which commercial and advertising photographer Jay P. Morgan walks us through how he went about shooting a portrait of a jazz player with a three light setup.
Want something fancy to prop up your growing collection of photography books? These snazzy …
Google just launched a new eBookstore containing over 3 million titles (the web’s …
Cinematographer Tom Guilmette has a simple way you can shoot your own aerial …
The folks over at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland have created a camera modeled after a fly's eye that provides a 360° view of the world. Packed with the 100 small cameras, what the camera captures is combined on a computer to provide a single 3D view of the world.
CNN recently did a story on NYU professor Wafaa Bilal and the camera he had implanted on the back of his head. The video above gives you a glimpse into what it looks like and how the system works. Turns out it wasn't a working camera that was permanently embedded into Bilal's skull, but rather a baseplate to which the wired camera can be mounted magnetically.
PhotoWeeklyOnline came up with this awesomely geeky …
Tor Even Mathisen created this stunning timelapse video of the …