If you need a bit of comic relief on Monday evening, this short parody by YouTuber MasterChiefin1 has you covered. It's an ode to "the high school photographer," that one person who "thought they were put on this Earth to take photos and think deeply." Given our audience, there's a good chance a few of us were this person.
For Valentine's Day today (you didn't forget, did you?), San Francisco-based self-proclaimed super nerd Doctor Popular decided to give his significant other a card packaged inside a 35mm film canister.
About a year ago, we shared a neat DIY method of transferring black-and-white photos onto blocks of …
If you're a photo enthusiast who uses Pandora for personalized music listening, you'll feel right at home using Art.sy. Just as Pandora uses the Music Genome Project to offer automated music recommendations, Art.sy has an Art Genome Project through which 20,000 images of art from 275 galleries and 50 museums have already been digitized, analyzed, and stored.
If you’re a fan of Instagram, then you’ll probably appreciate this neat DIY project by Elsie and Emma of …
The Wizard of Oz Experiment is a creative video installation by …
Want to enjoy a glimpse of photographic awesomeness every time you glimpse at the time at home? Create a …
If you have some unwanted 35mm negatives lying around and need a simple gift idea, you can …
Here’s a fantastic project/gift idea for those of you who are both tech-savvy and artsy: make a …
Here’s a short video in which photo instructor Bryan Peterson shows how you can use sunlight and a simple …
Textify.it is a neat little web and …
Remember the 100 pixelated camera illustrations by Billy Brown we featured a little while back? Well, you …
What you see here is every still frame of the famous 1939 film The Wizard of Oz compressed into a single frame, creating a colorful "barcode" for the movie. moviebarcode is a neat blog that publishes these images for a wide range of famous movies.
“Oops”, created by Chris Beckman, is a 10 minute art video composed entirely …
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.
Roberts Birze, known as thescatteredimage on Flickr, has a neat set called "scattered images" in which he creates surreal panoramas by combining a large number of digital photographs taken of a particular scene:
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.