Apparently Homer Simpson is quite handy with tools and savvy with camera repairs. Here he demonstrates the proper technique for getting a broken camera to magically work again... or for installing a custom tripod thread to the top of a camera.
Cameras usually hide what it’s shooting from you when the sensor is capturing light, so you can’t watch slow …
In the present day world of photography, "mainstream" digital cameras aren't nearly as modular as desktop computers since components can't easily be swapped in and out of the camera body. The future might look quite different, and Nikon is taking a step in that direction with a recent patent filing for interchangeable sensors on EVIL cameras. In addition to choosing a particular lens depending on the desired photo, photographers would be able to choose different sensors as well.
“Dueling Cameras” is a… unique little short by Noah Kalina (of everyday fame) …
The "Flutter in Pinhole" is a beautiful concept camera that combines a cardboard pinhole camera with instant film to make sharing memories a breeze, and could be the high-tech postcard of the future.
Now here's a novel way to shoot the moon: stack five separate Canon 2x extenders to boost the focal length of your 800mm lens. Supposedly (and surprisingly) this rig actually captured a decent photograph of the moon.
This was done by the folks over at BorrowLenses, who also did the crazy filter stacking thing we featured recently. When you have as much gear as they do at your disposal, you have a wider range of ways to have fun with gear experiments.
If your wall needs decorating and you have a lot of time on your hands (and we mean a …
Last night there was a total lunar eclipse that just so happened to …
Last week Alexandre Oudin's creative Facebook portrait idea spread like wildfire on the Interwebs, and was even featured by CNN. If you'd like to do the same thing with a portrait or photograph of yours but don't have the time or technical know-how to do so, there's a new website called Pic Scatter that does all the work for you. All you need to do is upload and resize and reposition the image to your liking, and the website will allow you to download all the individual photos for the "hacked" profile pic. The only downside is that a "Made with picScatter.com" bar is added to your image.
In the current world we live in, it’s often the case that one person taking photographs for a group …
Being a photographer for the National Geographic opens the door to all kinds of photo opportunities that other photographers …
Google's new Books Ngram Viewer is a cool new site that allows you to search for words and view a graph of how the usage of that word has fluctuated over time. A quick search of the word "photography" in books published between 1835 and 2008 provides a pretty interesting look at the history of photography.
The soft cases that are often bundled with higher-end lenses are good for preventing minor scrapes and bruises, but …
This surreal video might seem like some sort of abstract, computer-generated art project at first glance, but take a …
Forget the uber-expensive Leica cameras with their special edition embossed ostrich skin. Custom cut exotic skins is …
Inanimate objects in video games have long been quite realistic, but facial expressions on human characters haven’t been nearly …
Now that you’re older and not playing with stuffed animals any more, you’re probably not keeping coins in a …
In addition to slowly replacing the need for compact cameras, the cameras found on mobile phones will also have …
Sorry that this year's list of awesome photography gifts comes even later than last year's... we'll try to have it ready earlier in 2011. This year we have 10 fun, novel, and/or useful gifts for photography-lovers you love...
Leica recently ran a series of billboard advertisements promoting the S2 medium format DSLR and V-Lux 1. The billboards were quite unique in that they were individually made to show the wall they were placed on, with the details of the wall blown up to highlight the 12x optical zoom of the V-Lux 1 and the 37.5 megapixel sensor of the S2.
Chris Kotsiopoulos of GreekSky made this crazy …
I don’t know about you, but if it weren’t for the protective case on my smartphone, it would have …
Tagging friends in massive group photographs is about to get a whole lot easier. Facebook has just announced “tag …
If you think making prints at home with your photo printer saves you money over having the …
"Modern Times" is a short film that offers a glimpse of the future in both the story that it tells and the way it was made -- it's a low/no budget film created entirely against a green screen with friends as actors. Maybe in the future shooting at real locations (or with real people) will be less and less necessary as CGI continues to become more and more mind-boggling.
When Apple designed the iPad, they opted for simplicity and omitted things like a USB port or memory card …
Bruce Dale spent 30 years as a staff photographer for National Geographic, travelling the world and having thousands of …
I really love using old lenses on modern digital cameras, but many old lenses have cosmetic issues that make them a little less pleasant to use. Here are a few very cheap and easy things you can do to make these old lenses a little nicer to look at and to use. I don't advocate doing this to rare collectible lenses; this is for "user" lenses.
Note that these things have nothing to do with internal functionality of the focus or aperture, nor the condition of the glass. That should all be good before even thinking about this. No sense making lens ergonomics better if the lens isn't known to be worth using!
Why stick with a boring old Facebook picture when you can use the new photo strip as part of a larger, more creative portrait? That's exactly what Alexandre Oudin did with his.
“Moving Stills” is a short 10-minute documentary created back in 1978 to show how New York-based photo agency …
The Urban Word of the Day a couple days ago on Urban Dictionary was …
When a NASA Space Shuttle lifts off, there’s always high definition cameras carefully placed around the launch site, documenting …
Prince William and Kate Middleton recently released engagement photographs shot by fashion photographer Mario Testino, who previously also made portraits of Princess Diana. Testino is one of the world's most sought after fashion photographers, but public opinion regarding these portraits appears to be quite mixed (check out this dpreview forum thread).
While adding movement to time-lapse videos is cool, the special equipment (e.g. dollies, cranes, etc...) you need can be pricey. Derek Mellott couldn't afford to shell out hundreds of bucks for a dolly, so he decided to make his own using things found in his garage. His resulting setup included tripods, a cable management tray, a TI-calculator as an intervalometer, and a BBQ rotisserie motor to slowly pull the camera along.
Once your lenses get to a certain level of awesomeness, you have to start carrying them like bazookas. Can …
For his "In Transit" series, Diego Kuffer takes multiple photographs of scenes, then creates neat-looking composite images afterwards. Kuffer tells us,
The idea behind the series is all about time, but in a more condensed way, also known as "moments". I wanted to capture a moment with photography, but it only allowed me to get instants. So I decided to use the idea behind the movie making techniques (a great way of capturing moments) and apply it to photography. So, I took several snapshots of the same scene, sliced them horizontally and vertically, and assembled them in to a single one, chronologically. I like to think about these grammar as Chrono Cubism.
Back in August 2010, Friskies selected 25 cats around the country and gave …
It's always fun thinking about what photography will be like in the future, and the direction camera technology will go. What's even cooler is seeing these ideas turned into concept drawings or videos. The Capture180 is a concept camera by Lucas Ainsworth that takes a 180° hemispheric photograph with each exposure in addition to the ordinary, framed photograph. When viewing the photographs with the camera, you can "knock" the camera into a viewing mode in which it acts as a small window into the giant scene that was captured.
Pummelvision is a neat little website that aims to help you see your …
If you’re planning to give any gifts to photography-enthusiasts this Christmas, you can try adding a little awesomeness to …
The concept of hyperfocal distance is used in landscape photography to achieve the greatest depth …
Wanna give a unique present this Christmas? If you have two portraits of a particular friend (head-on and profile), …
This strange looking device is the Leica S1, the first digital camera created …
Apparently airplanes travel a little too fast for the satellites that provide photos for Google Maps. It happened to …
The people behind camera comparison and recommendation website snapsort have just launched …
How far can you go in protecting your gear before people start thinking you have serious issues? We're not exactly sure, but the guy in the photo above probably crossed that line quite a few filters ago. Thankfully (or sadly, depending on how you see it) the guy isn't actually an uber-paranoid photographer, but just someone from the BorrowLenses team having a little fun.
onOneSoftware’s DSLR Camera Remote is a convenient way to control your camera remotely …
Zebra Imaging is a company that creates amazing 3D holographic prints called ZScapes, …
You know how you can never manage to frame people properly when taking self-portraits of you and your …
Last week we shared the awesome fact that chickens have image stabilized heads. If you’ve been wondering …