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Mark Rober — the guy behind the gaping-hole-in-torso costume — recently came up with a creative way …

Photography enthusiast Maciej Pietuszynski jumped into tilt-shift photography recently by building a do-it-yourself …

Heavier tripods are generally more stable than lighter ones — wind doesn’t affect them as much — but hauling …

Steve 21 has an interesting trick for finding good available light: he places …

A Swedish hacker and robotics student named Björn Mabrö is claiming that he has successfully developed a custom firmware for the Canon 5D Mark II that adds Apple's Siri voice assistant to the DSLR. Mabrö claims that the hack allows the camera to respond to 124 different voice commands that control everything from the shutter to changing values in settings.

After damaging the pellicle mirror in his Sony A55 with cleaning fluid, a guy named Dario decided to look …

Nikon's firmware got decrypted last month, and now an unofficial firmware for Nikon DSLRs has emerged. Rather than offer useful adjustments, the firmware is purely for geekiness: it gives Nikon D5100 DSLRs a Star Wars theme.

Love music just as much as you love photography? Want an extra music stand? You can make a makeshift …

Reading a camera’s user manual is a great way to become familiar with all of its features and functions, …

Beauty dishes are pricey, and so are dedicated cases for carrying them around. If you want a cheap and …

Wanting a cheap and compact way to carry, protect, and manage his SD cards, Instructables member …

Have a habit of losing your lens caps? Add a clip to them to keep them attached to your …

With the introduction of iOS 5, Apple finally turned the iPhone’s volume up button into a shutter …

In this short video, photographer Allen Mowery shows how you can create a …

Here’s a quick tip for if you ever have a hard time removing a lens filter from …

In the past week, two different lens dial camera cases have been announced for iPhoneographers: a Holga …

Major camera makers including Olympus, Samsung and …

We've featured special gloves and mittens designed for photographers before, but what if your camera uses a touchscreen instead of physical controls? Here's a video by Make's Becky Stern showing how you can sew some conductive thread into your glove to make it compatible with capacitive touchscreens.

Flickr user Twin-Reverb made this nifty DIY flash diffuser using a cardboard paper towel tube, a paper towel, and some aluminum foil.

You don't need to shell out money for a nicer camera or a special lens to play around with macro photography. In addition to freelensing and using your lens backward, you can also place an ordinary magnifying glass in front of your lens to enlarge the world. Graphic designer Clif Dickens shot these close-up photos using a magnifying glass and an iPhone 3GS.

Modern DSLR lenses don’t usually have aperture rings, and opening and closing the aperture is the camera’s …

A couple days ago it was discovered that iPhones, iPods, and iPads running iOS 5 have a secret panorama mode that's hidden in the operating system. The feature can be enabled, but featured either a jailbroken device or knowledge in how to edit a particular iOS 5 preference file. Luckily for non-hackers, Redmond Pie has discovered an easy way to do this by taking advantage of iTune's backup feature. This tutorial will teach you how to get the panorama feature unlocked in 5-10 minutes.

Photographer Peter Wirén came up with a super cheap and easy way to record sliding shots using his DSLR. Instead of buying an expensive slider or dolly system, he simply cut the fingers off an old glove and used them as "socks" on his GorillaPod.

Many digital cameras are battery-only, and can’t be directly connected to an outlet for an infinite source of power.

If you have some translucent film canisters lying around, you can turn them into DIY glow sticks for …

Videographer Joel Loukus created a continuous ring light source -- which he calls the "WreathLight" -- using a wreath frame and two strings of Christmas lights. The total cost came out to $24. It's a cheap and easy way of adding some soft lighting to your portraits.

Here’s a quick and easy photo hack: cut a slice out of a white film canister to soften the …

Focus stacking is a technique for creating photos with a large depth of …

Like many electronic devices, cameras often come with certain cables that are neither necessary enough to be used often …

Lens hoods can become loose over time, leading to annoying rattling sounds or problematic vignetting if the …