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How To Make A Pinhole Camera From A Film Box

Over the years we posted quite a collection of pin hole how-to's, making pinholes from cardboard, calendars, LEGO, heck even toilet paper tube. But we never actually took the obvious path of making a...

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Kite Aerial Photography 101

In this post I will show you how to build a quick and easy rig to get your camera flying (without any magic wands and jumping from nukem driven airplanes).Yes, welcome to another boring tutorial......

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You CAN Build Everything With Lego, Even A Pinhole Camera

Photographer Giacomo Citti built an interesting camera made entirely of Lego bricks. (yes, we are on a pinhole roll here)The only exceptions are a little bit of black electrical tape and black painted...

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How To Shoot A Water Splash With A Spectacular Bokeh

I am always keeping a close eye on Corrie White's work. She seems to always have a new trick up her sleeve.A few days ago I saw Corrie White's amazing splash with bokeh photograph and was drawn to it....

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Capturing Colored Salt Thrown By Speaker Sound

Photographer Fabian Oefner creates amazing sculptures of pigment colored salt by placing it on a thin plastic foil stretched on a speaker. He calls them Dancing Colors.The shutter is opened for a few...

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How To Convert A Time-lapse Intervalometer To A Slider Controller

Andy Pearson wanted to introduce some sliding motion into his Parkour time-lapse footage with Parkour Generations. He already had a Varavon slider and only needed a way to consistently and remotely...

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Light Painting Primer (In French With Subtitles)

French photographer Wen-Jié Yangjust is pretty talented when it comes to light painting. The good news is that he had just released an awesome light painting tutorial, covering the basics, intermediate...

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Shooting Drawers In A 4 Days Time Lapse At A Time

Boutique carpenter Brian Grabski wanted to take moving shot of a set of drawers he built . To make things just a bit more interesting, had wanted some lilies to open up during the shot. Well, you can't...

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How To Photograph The Perfect Fire And Ice Cocktail

These photos are the results of such experimenting. I had nothing to do, and came across some high-speed drop and splash photos. I thought I give it a try, but it seemed boring and overdone by others,...

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What If We Photographed Time Instead Of Space

When we talk about photographs we usually talk about how we Freeze Time or Capture The Moment. Still photography has become almost synonymous with describing an image that happens in a single moment in...

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Incredible Time Lapse Created By Stacking Images From The ISS

We've seen amazing nightly time lapse movies before and we've see amazing star trails photographs before (and we have definitely seen some incredible ISS footage (and shenanigans) before. But I don't...

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High Speed Photographs of Toys Stuffed With Firecrackers

Alan Sailer is a master of blowing up stuff. Last year Alan declared a war on Christmas ornaments and hit them with a pallet shot from an special homemade, high speed, air canon. But then he also hit...

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Bokehlicious Splash Shots

A few weeks ago Corrie White shared a tutorial on creating a spactacular bokeh for a water splash photograph. When I saw it, I immediately thought "hmm..... this may play nice with the Bokeh Masters...

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The Hyperscope Is A Super Film In A Can Pinhole Camera

One of the nice things about film is that you can bend it. Really when was the last time you say a sensor flex? The fact that film bends allows for some crazy stuff like film in a can cameras.But Can...

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How To Build a Tilted Plane Pinhole Camera

Tilted plane cameras can control perspective in the same way (more or less) that a tilt-shift lens can do.(well, it's actually just the tilt part, the shift is something else). Tilt-sift is pretty...

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Doing Cross Section Light Painting Is The Opposite of MRI

MRI is used to salami objects into small slices and get a better idea about what's inside them without breaking them open.Cross section light painting is the exact reverse process where a photographer...

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The Jaw Pinhole Camera Really "Snaps" Pictures

Steven Monteau has an impressive record as a pinhole camera builder. Last year we shared two pinhole tutorials that he made, one for The Battlefield Pinhole Camera and La Guillotine pinhole camera....

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A Time-Lapse Of America With No People

Would it be weird if we lived in a world without people? Ross Ching is exploring this questions exactly in a series of time-lapses called The Empty America. The series is made out of time lapse movies...

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Those Are Not Your Everyday Orbs

Andrew Hall creates light painting orbs like no other I have seen before. And I have seen all kinds of orbs. It almost seems as if they are directed in some way. In fact his orbs are so unique that his...

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How To Create A Steel Wool Light Painting Vortex

Our How I Took It Contest got an impressive number of steel wool light painting tutorials. I wanted to share this one from Mike Mikkelson as it introduces two new elements that we've never had on the...

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