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Photographer Tyler Card‘s uber-creative Nikon DSLR costume was the talk of the photo …

A few weeks ago, Brooklyn resident Katie O'Beirne did a weekend project in which she left a disposable camera on a Prospect Park bench with a note asking passer-bys to snap a photograph. After getting the film developed and finding some cool photos, O'Beirne decided to continue with the project, leaving disposable cameras in a number of other spots around NYC. The resulting photographs can be seen on a Tumblr page she set up called "new york shots".

Earlier this month we shared a hugely popular post on transferring a photo onto a block of …

For three years, Italy-based photographer James Mollison visited music concerts and photographed the rabid fans outside. The resulting photographs became an interesting project titled, The Disciples, which shows how people emulate the singers and bands they love to form their identity.

Kodak’s website has a “Create” section stocked with all kinds of different photo …

Artist Jonathan Keller Keller first started taking a self-portrait of himself every day …

Here's a quick and easy tutorial that'll teach you a cool method of transferring a photo print (black and white or color) onto a block of wood.

Having cameras passed from person to person around the world isn’t a new idea, but …

"Men-ups!" is a humorous project by photographer Rion Sabean featuring men doing pin-up-style poses. It's interesting how much more absurd some poses instantly look when they're being done by men.

Nine years ago, during his final year as a fine art photography student in Melbourne, …

After the widespread looting that occurred in the UK recently, a guy named Mrog Deville was inspired to distribute …

Instructables user art.makes has a tutorial on how you can make a pair of paper iris glasses with adjustable apertures. You could definitely build upon the idea to make each side more like a camera lens (e.g. adding barrels, f-stop values) -- perhaps as part of a geeky Halloween costume?

Buying large frames for displaying your prints can be expensive. For those of you who are rich in time …

Some photographers prefer using ordinary bags with padded inserts to carry their camera gear, both for aesthetic reason and …

Want a DSLR viewfinder but don’t want to pay big bucks for a professional one? …

Cut Out + Keep member Myam made …

Want a challenging photography project? Try capturing an analemma in a single shot. "Analemma" is the name given to the figure-eight shape traced by the sun if photographed at the same time of day over the course of a year. To capture it, you'll need to leave your camera in a fixed position and shoot photos at exactly the same time of day for all of the shots.

Flickr user Alex12Ga turned his Canon 5D Mark II into a DIY digital view camera by mounting a Novar-Anastigmat 75mm f/3.5 lens from 1949 with its original bellows. He mounted the bellows to his camera using an aluminum plate and an EOS mount ring that he salvaged from a broken Sigma lens.

Line up an array of digital cameras and you'll have yourself a setup that can take Matrix-style bullet-time shots. Artist Sam Blanchard created a similar rig, but went with Polaroid cameras instead of digital ones. The project, titled Polaroid Matrix, consists of 20 Polaroid cameras arranged in a circle and modified to be triggered remotely. After the cameras are triggered to simultaneously capture photos of the subject in the center, the Polaroid pictures are arranged and turned into a Flipbook.

After Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, photographer Richard Misrach visited the empty city …

After finding out that he was going to become a father, photographer Tom Robinson decided to make a creative photo project out of the task of telling his family and friends by capturing their expressions at the moment of hearing the news.

After moving into their new dorm room, Caleb Ungewitter and his roommate Kyle decided that their walls looked too empty, so they decided to decorate it with a photo. Not just any photo, mind you, but a gigantic do-it-yourself print of a beautiful city skyline. Using a free program called The Rasterbator, they converted the photograph into 152 separate frames, which they printed out themselves and attached to the wall in a grid.

The photographs in Adam Magyar's Square series appear to show crowds of people bustling about in open town squares, seen from a height that makes them look almost like ants. In reality, each photograph is actually a composite of hundreds of individual photos, and none of the squares actually exist. Magyar photographed strangers walking on sidewalks from only 3-4 meters off the ground, and then blended the photographs together to make them seem like they were captured from a fake height!

We've seen DSLR photo booth projects before, but usually they're just simple ways for guests at an event to take self-portraits of themselves. Kevin over at I Dream In Code actually made a fancy photo booth for his brother's wedding that prints out a nice keepsake for guests.

Forget model airplanes… This Plamodel snap model kit is the one to buy if you’re a photo-enthusiast (or want …

CineSkates are new patent-pending wheels that attach to JOBY's GorillaPod Focus tripod, allowing you to capture fluid, stabilized video with your DSLR without bulky or expensive equipment.

"Genetic Portraits" is a series by Canadian photographer Ulric Collette in which he blends the portraits of two members of the same family into a single face. It's interesting to see the similarities and differences among people who share DNA -- especially when there's identical twins.

For his project "Day Into Night", photographer Stephen Wilkes set up a 4x5 camera with a 39-megapixel digital back 40-50 feet off the ground in a cherry picker, and photographed the scene throughout the course of one day. Keeping a constant aperture, he adjusted his shutter speed to compensate for the position of the sun. Afterward, the hundreds of images captured were edited to roughly 30-50 photos, and then seamlessly Photoshopped together to show a gradual transition from day to night.

For his project "Back from the Future", photographer Sander Koot asked his subjects to find old photos of themselves that brought back good memories. He then made portraits of those people reliving those happy moments.

Craftzine has a step-by-step tutorial teaching how to turn your unwanted 35mm film …

Here’s a fun weekend project: create a tiny keychain photo album with your favorite photos! Simply print out your …

Skott Chandler's House Watch project consists of photographs taken in private living spaces using a pinhole camera fixed to the ceiling.

If you ever find yourself with some unwanted negatives on your hands, you can upcycle them into creative film …

"Vector Portraits" is a series of candid portraits of passing motorists shot by photographer Andrew Bush between 1989 and 1997 in the Los Angeles area. After making 66 of these portraits, he published a photo book with them titled "Drive".

Photographer Mark Menjivar captured some interesting portraits of people across the United States by photographing the insides of their fridges. He spent three years travelling the country, gathering individual stories from people, and assembling the unique portraits in his project, titled "You Are What You Eat".

Here’s a fun photo project you can try: recreate each of Calvin’s funny face photographs from Calvin and Hobbes.

File this under “awesome ways to show off your photos”. Lomographer zakguy had …

Remember that super realistic Leica M3 paper pinhole camera we featured back in June? You can now …

"The Untitled Project" by photographer Matt Siber features urban scenes with all traces of text stripped away and reconstructed in a separate frame. Siber shot the original images in North America, Europe, and China over the past nine years.

Robots might not be able to convey emotions or tell stories through photographs, but one thing they’re theoretically better …