April 6, 2011

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Camera Toss Photos with Peace of Mind

Camera toss photography involves having your camera shoot photographs while it's being tossed wildly into the air. The problem is, you'll usually want to play around with this kind of photography at night, when long exposure times will create pretty abstract images. If catching your camera on its way down in the dark isn't something that sits well with you, you might want do try what Flickr user Robert Couse did -- protect your camera using an inflatable swim tube, a piece of cardboard, and …

Nikon Has Made 60 Million Nikkor Lenses

Nikon announced yesterday that the 60 milionth Nikkor lens came into existence sometime in March 2011, a month after Canon announced the 60 millionth Canon EF lens. Canon has had a faster growth rate though -- while the first Nikkor lens was made in 1959, Canon's EF mount didn't show up until 1987.

Ghosts Captured Using Light Painting

These ghostly figures you see in these photographs weren't Photoshopped in, but are purely done through light painting. If you remember the creative 3D light painting technique using an iPad that we shared a while back, Croix Gagnon and Frank Schott took it a step further and put a slightly morbid twist on it. For their project "12:31", they "painted" using a laptop and an animation showing cross-sections of a human body!