February 23, 2012

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How to Shoot Sound Painting Photos with Paint and a Speaker

Last week we featured some "sound painting" photographs by Martin Klimas, captured by using a speaker to vibrate paint. Here's a video tutorial by some Arizona State University Polytechnic students demonstrating how you can do your own "sound painting" photos. They use a thrift store speaker covered with a garbage bag and some Crayola poster paint.

Make Personalized Bookmarks Using 35mm Film Strips

If you have some unwanted 35mm negatives lying around and need a simple gift idea, you can try your hand at turning them into one-of-a-kind bookmarks. Simply cut out the actual frames from the film strip and replace them with actual photographs to create film strips that you don't need to hold up to the light to enjoy.

Beautiful Time-Lapse of the Milky Way, Auroras, and Shooting Stars

Time-lapse photographer Randy Halverson (whose time-lapse of lightning storms we featured last year) is back again with another epic time-lapse film. This one is packed with shots of some of the most beautiful things you can point your camera at in the night sky: the Milky Way, auroras, and shooting stars. It's composed of thousands of 15-30 second exposures captured with a Canon 5D Mark II and Canon 60D at ISO 1600-6400, f/2.8, and 3 second intervals. Keep your eyes peeled at 53 seconds: you …