Store Your Treasures in this Polaroid Camera Locket
Etsy seller Mariko Carandang sells handmade jewelry, and one of her products is this small treasure locket that's meant to look a little like the Polaroid SX-70.
Etsy seller Mariko Carandang sells handmade jewelry, and one of her products is this small treasure locket that's meant to look a little like the Polaroid SX-70.
Nikon is running a new "Man of Action" commercial starring Ashton Kutcher in the US that features the same "twist" as the Olympus PEN commercial we shared in the middle of 2010. Sorry for the out-of-sync audio (let's just pretend it's dubbed).
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.
The White House announced last month that it would be ending the long-running practice of reenacting Presidential speeches for photographs, but stated that they were still working out how the new system would work. Last week it reached an agreement with the White House Correspondents’ Association -- rather than reenacting photos for a larger group of photographers, a single photojournalist will be given permission to shoot future speeches as they happen: …
Twitter has just announced that they will be launching their own photo-sharing service that will let you attach photographs directly to Tweets, competing with services like TwitPic. Rather than host the images themselves using their own servers or Amazon's S3 storage, they've decided to partner with photo-sharing giant Photobucket. It'll be interesting to see whether photographers feel more comfortable sharing their images on Twitter now that the functionality will be baked into the service …
Photographer Ben Canales created this great video tutorial teaching the basics of shooting the night sky. He goes over how to shoot quick test shots to set up your composition before discussing more in-depth tips and tricks for capturing the final shot, including the "Rule of 600".
If you need a cheap way to bounce some light, don't want to spend a wad of cash on a real reflector from a camera shop, and don't want to take the time to make a cardboard and aluminum foil reflector, you can buy a cheap car sun shade (less than $10 at Walmart) as a cheap reflector. They're lightweight, foldable, and reflect light well -- just make sure the reflective surface is white or silver.
