Drew Kunz has a pretty neat way of creating abstract pinhole photographs. Using a film canister as his "camera", he drills small holes into rolls of color film, distresses the film further with a small nail, and then develops the exposed film first with coffee and sodium carbonate, and finally with C-41.
Next time you’re attend a fireworks display, try shooting your photographs or video out of focus. This video by …
Some wedding photographers offer a package that includes an iPad pre-loaded with images from that special day.
It's a simple, yet brilliant way to get both bride and (especially) groom more excited about the album -- while assuring their photos won't lie forgotten in a dusty album years later.
The digital trend is catching on, said Pennsylvania-based photographer Daniel Lanton, who bundles the iPad with engagement photos. Lanton said in an interview with Tampa Bay Online that the iPad it adds a bit more immediacy to the images, as well as a sort of permanence in a new digital age:
"I just foresee a time when the wedding album becomes non-existent or continues falling away ... Now I'm selling more iPads with bound albums. I sold six in the first week."
The cute photo above of a surprise photo booth proposal is making its arounds around the Internets right now. Angela writes on her blog,
These are the pictures from when we got engaged. I have no idea in frames one and two and am really confused in frame three (lets never make that face again!) and really surprised in frame four.
Turns out the idea of popping the question unexpectedly in a photo booth in order to capture the resulting (priceless) expression is quite popular.
Here's a terrific "Doh! Why didn't I think of that?" idea shared by Flickr user Ralph Odenwälder in his photostream: create a set of matching Polaroid photographs for an awesome do-it-yourself memory card game that you can either give someone as a present or play yourself!
A good majority of news and documentary photographers tend to shy away from capturing video footage on DSLRs, owing to the cameras limited HD clip length. However, here's a really fantastic example of a documentary-style story shot with a 1D Mark IV, directed by photographer Austin Walsh in Kansas City.
Canon recently indicated that due to consumer demand for smaller cameras, they’re working …
We've already got plenty of gadgets designed to facilitate photography: there's auto-focus, face detection, and some crazy features in Photoshop that can effortlessly add and remove entire elements (and people) in photographs. So now why not have a camera that tells you whether you're taking an aesthetically pleasing photograph?
Here’s a really great way to turn photos from a novelty camera into something of practical use — make …
Jeremy Salvador assembled this strange contraption in an attempt to combine an SLR lens with the iPhone. Salvador created a prototype with an Owle Bubo iPhone camera mount, a 37mm filter with glass removed, a 37-58mm step-up ring, a Canon EF mount adapter ring, and a 35mm Canon lens. Though he's managed to fit all the pieces together, he's been unable to actually take a useable photograph.
Using a bit of drawer liner as both padding and case, Instructables Living editor …
Here’s a pretty cool idea: StudioShare.org is a website through which individuals can rent …
The Sydney Morning Herald has an amazing collection of interviews with their photojournalists, sharing how they approach photography and …
Holga D is a concept camera by India-based industrial designer Saikat Biswas that brings the plastic, medium-format Holga camera into the digital age.
The cheap toy camera design retains the optical jankiness that lures hipsters to this type of camera (i.e. vignetting, blurring, and light leaks), but a DSLR-caliber sensor inside ensures that the anomalies are optical rather than digital.
Wouldn't it be neat if we could print out short video clips in Polaroid-esque "prints"? That's the idea behind Kim Hyun Joong's Movie Polaroid Camera, a concept camera that uses a flexible display material rather than ink to "print" out ultra-portable video clips rather than traditional Polaroid pictures.
What if you could have a rubber stamp that had a built in camera, allowing it to instantly change the stamp design to "print" a photograph? Would it be a stamp camera or a camera stamp? Either way, we think it's a nifty idea!
What if you could keep your camera charged all day while shooting outdoors using the power of the sun? …
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:
Editor's note: The creative photographic negative business card idea that we shared recently was pretty popular with our readers. Here we've asked Steph Goralnick to share how exactly it was made in case you want to make your own.
The realization that I had run out of my regular business cards the night before I was scheduled to attend a weekend-long special event inspired me to create a small edition of extra special cards on the fly. I was aiming for a simple design with a unique construction that would showcase my skills as both a photographer and a graphic designer. Due to the fact that time was an issue, traditional vendors out of the question; and since I didn’t need more than a couple dozen cards, I decided to make them myself at home using an inkjet printer and some negatives.
Here’s an amazingly awesome idea for business cards if you’re a photographer or photo enthusiast. Brooklyn-based photographer and designer …
Editor's note: We came across Duncan McNicholl's work a while back and found it interesting, so we invited him to write a guest post regarding his project. His work has been featured by quite a few publications and websites in recent times.
Many people only experience sub-Saharan Africa through photographs. The teary-eyed child in rags is familiar to all of us as the portrait of poverty charities use to communicate a hopelessness in need of our pity and charity. I reacted very strongly to these images when I returned from Africa in 2008 after a 4 month volunteer placement in Malawi, working with Engineers Without Borders Canada. I compared the images I saw to my Malawian friends – people who embodied intelligence, resilience, and compassion – and I felt lied to.
Upside Downy Face is a creative series of portraits by …
Self-described creative technologist Thiago Avancini hacked this Atari 2600 joystick into a shutter release cable -- complete with an autofocus control for his Canon T2i. The controller is considerably larger than the average cable release or remote control, but it's a pretty nifty.
Jonathan Berqvist needed a shoulder rig for stabilizing his Canon 7D when filming, and his father Erik is quite good with woodworking, so they built a do-it-yourself a wooden shoulder rig using a a single tree branch. What's awesome about the shoulder rig is that it has follow focus built into one of the two handles used to hold it.
Forget complicated kite photography kits that actually require skill. UK-based industrial designer Matthew …
Laptopograms give “taking a screenshot” a new …
Here’s a fun concept design imagining the classic Kodak Brownie reintroduced to for …
The “Sony a352” is a concept camera design by Ryan David Francis, a …
If you’re looking for a photographic adventure, check out …
The Zero Angle Digital Camera is a conceptual design by Sun ho Sin and Jeong eun Park that protects …