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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.

If you’re looking for creative portrait ideas, here’s a fun one to try: focus on your subject through the …

After photographer Ross Ching came across Dentsu London's creative 3D light painting technique with an iPad, he decided to give it a try, combining it with timelapse photography to make a music video for "I'll Try Anything Once" by The Strokes (seen above). The app he used was Holographium, which you can pick up for $5 from the app store.

“Photocopy Romance” is a creative stop motion video made with a scanner. To see some behind-the-scenes photographs of …

When the leaves on trees are just starting to change color in the Autumn, try collecting them and arranging …

Photographer Chris McCaw was making long exposures of the night sky during a camping trip when he forgot to cap his camera lens before going to sleep. When he woke up, he discovered that the sun had burned a hole through his negative. After processing the film, he found that it had solarized, or reversed in tone. What started as an accident McCaw now does intentionally for his "Sunburn" series of photographs.

Using homemade large format cameras, McCaw exposes silver gelatin paper for extended periods of time, burning through the paper and inverting the image.

Introduced in 1967, the Lite-Brite is a children’s toy where colored pegs are …

Solaroids are unique prints created by photographer Jeff Mclane by exposing large format (4x5 in) Fuji instant film to direct UV light for long periods of time.

Next time you shoot a fireworks display, try combining the individual photos you capture into a collage of fireworks explosions afterward. Jesse Garcia created the above image with 50 different photographs.

Foodscapes is a series by photographer Carl Warner in which he creates beautiful surreal landscapes using various foods. Warner starts by visualizing and sketching his ideas, which are then built on a large table in his studio with the help of his team. Large blocks of polystyrene are carved and covered with ingredients in order to make the hills seen in his photos, while shallow tanks are used to create lakes, rivers, and seas. Photographs for three different layers (foreground, middle ground, and background) are captured separately and then combined in post.

Here's a creative idea that we love - cut out giant letters, gather up some friends, and spell out words with shadows! Justin Swindle, a student at Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, created the above image by cutting the sides off the biggest cardboard moving box he could get his hands on. He then traded the letters freehand and cut them out using a razor.

UK-based designer Chrissie Macdonald was commissioned by Marque Creative to create art for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Among the things she made was a neat camera and flash created entirely using card stock. It almost looks like it's a digital creation done using Adobe Illustrator.

IKEA recently created a baking cookbook titled "Hembakat är Bäst" (Homemade is Best) and hired photographer Carl Kleiner to provide images for the recipes. Kleiner shot beautiful photographs of the recipes' ingredients, neatly arranged in geometric patterns by Evelina Bratell.

The music video for "My Favorite Pillow" by Rhett & Link has the same kind of awesomeness and creativity that made OK Go the kings of viral music videos. Released less than a week ago, the video already has millions of views. It's a backwards music video in which everything is playing in reverse, but the singers still manage to mouth the words correctly. There's also 600 pillows used in the video, which obviously creates instant awesomeness in itself.

This photograph results from exposing a pinhole camera while it’s spinning around on a record player. A simple yet …

The ratio between the focal length and the aperture (diameter) of a lens is called the f/number. The smaller the f/number, the more light is let in. Fast lenses start around f/2.0, and the light let in goes as the inverse square. Compared to f/2.0, f /1.4 lets in twice as much light, f/1.0 four times, and f/0.71 eight times. The fastest camera lenses designed for DSLRs and widely available are between f/1.4 and f/1.2, but lenses as fast as f/0.75 have been made in quantity for special applications, and some of those are available quite cheaply via scrap yards, surplus stores, or eBay.

These ultra-fast lenses usually are branded either Kowa or Rodenstock and were designed for use in medical or semiconductor industry equipment, etc. They are not well-suited for use on DSLR cameras, and are no substitute for an f/1.4 or f/1.2 lens that was designed for your camera. However, they easily can produce very distinctive images. Here's how to use one on a DSLR.

It’s not just photography enthusiasts that like to play with bokeh — check out this short clip …

Here's a stop-motion music video created by Ian Robertson for a song titled Lyrical Spread by The Chameleon. Robertson uses stop-motion to display the lyrics of the song in a pretty unique way -- as jam being spread over bread.

The above is a promotional video for the Summadayze 2011 music festival done in stop-motion. It was created by Tom Blachford, a 22-year-old self-taught photographer based in Melbourne, Australia.

Here’s an amazingly awesome idea for business cards if you’re a photographer or photo enthusiast. Brooklyn-based photographer and designer …

“Running on Empty” by Ross Ching is …

“NES Stop Motion” is an amazing stop motion video by YouTube user bornforthis43 …

“Skateboardanimation” is a creative video by Tilles …

Pencil Vs Camera! is a wonderful series of photographs by Belgian photographer and painter …

Here’s a fun little tilt-shift, time-lapse video by The Bitter*Girls showing a sumo …

Photographer Jon Beard has a terrific set of photos called "Burning Bulbs" in which he breaks lightbulbs and photographs them with the filaments exposed.

It might be hard to believe, but each of the following “paintings” is actually a photograph by artist …

Luis Caldevilla creates beautiful time-lapse videos and publishes them to his website, …

Despite what your eyes tell you, the above image is a photograph of a real person, not a painting.

Our jaws dropped when we came across Matthew Albanese’s work. He uses everyday materials to create astonishingly detailed small-scale miniatures …

American Pixels is an experiment by Jörg …

Freezelight is a Russian group that creates light painting photographs and animations. They have a pretty interesting blog showcasing their work, and opened up a Vimeo account a few days ago to showcase their films.

Here's a dose of creative inspiration: a hand animated video of parkour. Created by Serene Teh and Noel Lee, parkour motion reel is a pretty unique take on the flip book style of animation.

This interesting collection of images by Indonesian artist Agan Harahap, titled “Super Hero”, features famous superheroes (and villains) inserted into …

Just came across this hilarious animation of two guys discussing "thinking outside the box". Now, I guess these guys could be anyone from philosophers to painters, but I like to think they're photographers who are trying too hard to be "artistic". Enjoy.

Editor’s note: Jan von Holleben is the photographer well known for his project “Dreams of Flying”. He just completed a …

In this post I’ll briefly explain how to take photographs like this one. Just like my previous post on …

This is another post geared towards ideas and experimentation, rather than practicality and general photography. Here are two (kind …

Here’s a quick idea for you to try if you’re looking for some photo inspiration (after all, we have …

Felt like experimenting a little today, and started out shooting low depth of field photographs of flying insects. One thing …