Wedding photographer Kirk Mastin hired Shep Films to create this stunning promo that really conveys his passion for the art. It's pretty inspirational, even if shooting weddings isn't your thing. How can you pass up hiring the guy after watching this?
What if every photograph included a short video showing the few seconds that led up to the shutter being pressed? That's the idea behind a new free iPhone app called GLMPS (pronounced "glimpse"). It's a camera app that stores a few seconds of video with each shot, letting users share the background behind each picture (try clicking the photo above). Unlike normal iPhone photos, displaying a GLMPS photo/video requires a special embed code, make it somewhat inconvenient to share. Wouldn't it be …
When his friend Tom Offer-Westort decided to shave off his hair and massive beard, Peter Simon suggested that they take advantage of the opportunity and do it in style. This stop-motion video is what resulted.
We've shared a lens cap and hood hybrid here before, but this one is much nicer. "Flower", dreamt up by designers Rhie Hyi Joong and Lee Sang Hwa, is a concept lens cap that blooms into a hood by simply turning a ring.
Rather than use ordinary film to capture 2D images, photographer ShiKai Tseng shoots using 3D objects as film. After painting the objects with Liquid Light to make them light-sensitive, he uses a specially designed pinhole camera to expose them to light from all directions. It's a pretty neat way to decorate things like vases (which he demonstrates in the above video), though scanning the pictures for the web might be a bit tricky...
Some Leica M9 owners are discovering that their camera will suddenly stop functioning and render their SD card unreadable on any device.
If you've been dying to turn your Android phone into a remote for your Canon DSLR, today's your lucky day. A developer who goes by "chainfire" has released a new app called "DSLR Controller". It gives you live view and access to a whole host of camera functions through your phone, which connects to the camera through a USB host cable. Check out the demo above to see it in action. The beta version currently costs $8.56 over in the Android Market.
San Francisco resident Travis Curtis spent 15 minutes shooting this unique photograph of Yosemite Falls, receiving a lot of strange looks from the other tourists around him.
