This is an innovative idea for a music video. It was apparently created with 2,500 Polaroids.
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Music video made with 2,500 Polaroids
Sunday, April 16th, 2006DIY Flash Mini-Bouncer
Thursday, April 6th, 2006This is a nice and easy to make flash bouncer card. Sure beats the old index card and elastic band trick.
- Link (via MAKE: Blog)
- Also check out their article on making a Flash Mounted Homemade DIY Softbox
Putting Together a Budget DIY Lighting System
Friday, March 31st, 2006Article on building your own DIY studio lighting rig. A nice alternative to expensive lighting systems for amateur photographers.
A flexible lighting system is something that I have wanted to play with for a while, but like everything else in photography it seems to be a fairly expensive area to get into, at least when you consider the relative simplicity of a light-bulb.
Thankfully there are a number of cheap and widely-available or easily-made items that can provide most of the same functionality at a small fraction of the price. For under US$75, this article will show you how to put together a flexible and robust lighting system that is both useful and relatively easy on the hip pocket.
- Link (via Lifehacker)
Application of a fake tilt shift technique to a movie clip…
Thursday, March 16th, 2006This page has a nice pair of before and after videos demonstrating the fake tilt shift effect, but applied to videos.
- Link (via Boing Boing)
Close-up photos of tiny people models on food…
Wednesday, February 15th, 2006This is a nice set of photos of miniature people-figures apparently living on items of food.
- Link (via MAKE: Blog)
Real photos that look like miniature sets
Saturday, January 28th, 2006Photographer Olivo Barbieri takes real photos, but uses a tilt-shift lens to make them look like they were taken using miniature scale models. The effect is totally surreal. I love it!
- Link (via Boing Boing)
DIY MagLite Photolamp
Wednesday, December 14th, 2005Instructions on cobbling together a softbox attached to a flashlight.
I don’t know how, but late at night I got the idea that I wanted to covert [sic] my new 3D cell Mag-Lite to a handy photo-lamp. Next morning I dug out some 250 GSM paper and some adhesive foil I’ve been saving for a worthy project and whipped up a quick ghetto-lamp
- Link (via Lifehacker)
Extreme Macro Photography – On a Budget!
Thursday, December 8th, 2005Instructions on modding a Pringles can into a macro extension tube for macro photography.