Here's one of the most creative examples of light painting and long-exposure photography we've seen -- a few techie guys built a special 12-foot-long rod with 80 LED lights that light up depending on how strong a particular Wi-Fi signal is. By walking the stick around and capturing the lights in real time, they were able to photograph "light charts" showing how a particular Wi-Fi signal strength fluctuates in a particular area.
If you want your kids to grow up with the same love of photography you have, you can try performing some "inception" giving them photography-related toys from a young age. "Zoom" is a camera windup toy by Z Wind Ups that waddles around, looking at things with a magnifying glass.
This short video gives a beautiful and inspiring introduction to night photography. Don't watch it if you already have plans tonight -- it might make you want to grab your camera and shoot once the sun goes down.
Photojojo has a new ring flash adapter that allows you to shoot soft, studio-style portraits without shelling out the big bucks for an actual ring flash. It's a plastic add-on with a reflective circle that simply channels the light from your existing flash, so it doesn't require any batteries.
We're lucky that cameras and camcorders can be used during flights, or we wouldn't have this amazing view of the Space Shuttle Discovery's final launch from inside an airplane. There was also a student project that captured the launch from the edges of space using camera-laden a balloon.
For her series entitled "Photo Opportunities", photographer Corinne Vionnet gathered hundreds of photographs taken by tourists at famous locations and combined them by layering them together, creating surreal views of places we've all seen before in photographs.
