Here's a neat photo project for you to try: find a friend who loves photography just as much as you do, and share a roll of film. After one person finishes using up a roll, rewind it and send it to the other person. That's what photographers Lexi and Natalie did with their project Exposed Far Away.
Photographer Matthew Nicholson created this paper Leica M3 that's a working pinhole camera. It's loaded with 35mm film, and even the strap is realistic and made with paper!
Here’s a fun bit of photo history: did you know that back in 1982, Kodak attempted to introduce a …
How do camera makers describe their cameras? To answer this question, we took the press releases of some popular cameras and made word clouds with them that are based on the number of occurrences of non-common words. The above word cloud is for the Canon 5D Mark I.
This animation was created by students of the Engineering 128: Advanced Engineering Design …
When two photographers got engaged in Japan, they asked their jewelry-maker friend to create wedding rings based on the …
Bryce Bell of cardnetics created this business card design that features a built-in …
Did you know that you can turn any wall magnetic by painting it with magnetic primer? Communications company M Booth did this with one of its walls, then sent out employees onto the streets of NYC with Fujifilm Instax cameras. The result is this impressive wall displaying 800 instant photos!
Here’s an idea for a quick photo activity (perhaps on a rainy day?): pick a random color, walk around …
This compact camera is only one dollar… literally. Won Park, an artist that …
There’s plenty of time lapse projects documenting the passage of time and the process of aging with …
Flickr user Betty Ann recycled a photography book by transforming pages into these …
As the low-light capabilities of high-end (and even low-end) cameras rapidly improve, it’s easy to marvel at …
Vodafone recently ran a pretty creative advertising campaign called “Pixel Hunt” for the purpose of illustrating how many pixels …
Photographer Darren Samuelson spent seven months building a massive homemade large-format camera that's about six-feet-long when fully extended. He shoots with 14×36-inch x-ray film that's about 1/12th the cost of ordinary photographic film but much harder to develop.
Inspired by Todd McLellan’s photos of disassembled gadgets, electrician and photography addict …
Samsung just published a followup to the NX lens engineer interview …
Camera innards are often shown in cross section diagrams, but here’s a Sony Alpha camera and lens that were …
If your house was going up in flames and you only had a few minutes to gather up a few things to save from the fire, which of your possessions would you choose? The Burning House is a neat photo project by Foster Huntington that asks this question, with photographs submitted by various people showing their most valuable possessions neatly arranged. Unsurprisingly, cameras and photographs are at the top of many peoples' lists.
If colleges offered camera equipment anatomy classes, this Leica lens cutaway might be one of the things you'd be examining in the lab. It's a Leica Tri-Elmar-M 28-35-50mm sliced cleanly down the middle, revealing all the glass and pieces inside that go into making the lens.
Photography studio StaudingerFranke created this mind-boggling image of a Polaroid OneStep Land Camera …
Hong Kong-based camera enthusiast TM Wong has 1000+ instant cameras in his collection -- possibly the world's largest collection. That's enough cameras to use a different one each day for nearly three years!
Photographer Alan Sailer works out of his garage shooting things with a high-speed pellet rifle and photographing the results using a homemade flash unit. An interesting series of photographs he has, titled "The War Against Christmas", involves filling Christmas tree ornaments with various things and shooting them for unique explosions of texture and color. The photograph above shows an exploding ornament that was filled with washable kids tempera paint.
If you thought the Polaroid beeswax candle we shared yesterday was cool, check out this candle designed …
Here's an interesting look at what the aperture blades on a Canon 18-55mm (the kit lens for many DSLRs) look like. The video above shows the blades moving into position at 120fps. This happens every time you shoot a photograph and in the blink of an eye.
There's a lot of paranoia when it comes to doing photography in and around airports these days -- much to the dismay of plane spotters -- but wedding photographer and airplane enthusiast Lynn-Kai Chao came up with a neat way to do airplane photography without worrying the TSA: by using airplane models. Believe it or not, the above photograph is actually a Photoshopped photograph of Chao holding a model airplane.
Melbourne-based design studio Betty Wants In captured some skydiving footage using a GoPro …
This advertisement might not seem too special or difficult to do at first glance, until you …
If you’re looking for an interesting photo project to undertake, you can try starting a collection through photos. While …
If you have an instant camera, have you ever tried taking digital photos of the prints right after you made them? For his series titled "Instax Windows", Shawn McClung carries around a digital camera and snaps a digital photo of his Fuji Instax prints right after they're taken, with the scene in the print lined up with the real world.
Back of a Webpage is a creative new site that imagines what popular …
Flickr user Frannie 1 shot these beautiful photographs of the rare …
To capture “portraits of the sun” and to illustrate its power, General Electric filled 20 weather balloons with hydrogen …
David Eger has a fun 365 day photo project called "365 Days of Clones" in which he posts a daily photo involving Star Wars clone trooper action figures. He also has a neat mini-series in which he recreates famous photographs, called "Cloned Photos". See if you recognize any of these.
For their Multimedia Installation class project, Pratt graduate students Alex Crawford and Austin …
Olympus has a new "Spokesman Series" of commercials that try to convey the different strengths of their compact cameras in creative ways. They remind me a tiny bit of the Old Spice Guy commercials.
Did you know that flatbed scanners make fun portrait cameras as well? Just place your cat on the glass, do a quick scan, and you'll have a strange looking portrait shot from below! Apparently this is pretty popular among cat lovers -- a Flickr search for "cat scanner" returns thousands of results! This gives "cat scan" a whole new meaning!
Photographer Denis Smith creates photos giant balls of light without any digital trickery, relying instead on light-painting. His technique is to spin a light around while slowly turning his body, creating spheres of light when seen in a long exposure photo.
Photographer Cary Norton built a working 4x5 large format camera using Lego bricks, a 127mm lens he purchased for $40 on eBay, and a film holder and ground glass in the back.
Have an older camera that doesn’t have a built-in light meter? Instead of buying an expensive light …