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Manhattan Photography – Capturing Vibrant Images of the World’s Most Recognizable Cityscape
Jan 19 1 PM
Manhattan stands proud, tough and strong at the center of New York City—and the world. To reveal those qualities in your Manhattan photography, you must see beyond the standard snapshots of the major tourist attractions, and accept a greater challenge. Here is an opportunity to test your photographer’s eye to find, and then compose, digital photos that capture Manhattan’s vibrancy and unique style of living, and not just its universal icons. Read the rest of this entry »
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Manhattan Photography – Capturing Vibrant Images of the World’s Most Recognizable Cityscape
Jan 19 1 PM
Manhattan stands proud, tough and strong at the center of New York City—and the world. To reveal those qualities in your Manhattan photography, you must see beyond the standard snapshots of the major tourist attractions, and accept a greater challenge. Here is an opportunity to test your photographer’s eye to find, and then compose, digital photos that capture Manhattan’s vibrancy and unique style of living, and not just its universal icons. Read the rest of this entry »
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A New Twist On An Old Bouncer
May 17 5 PM
A simple flash bouncer is the next best thing to shooting off camera flash. It either makes the flash bigger by diffusing some of its light, or have it bounce to the wall / ceiling creating a big spot of light that bounces back to the subject.
I guess this is why there are so many products that provide this function, along with a ton of DIY solutions to the same problem.
This is why it is refreshing to see a new take on that problem. Designer Benny Johansson (who made the genius cap holder and was finalist on our sofbox contest) came up with a slightly different flash bouncer thingy built from two pieces of recycled plastic – the PilleVippo. The amazing thing about the PilleVippo is that it is super versatile and 100% DIY. It fits both point and shots and DSLRs. All you need is an old plastic container and a template you can get on Ben’s site.
How To Make a Kickin’ POV Helmet Cam
May 17 2 PM
If you wanna shoot first person footage, one of the easiest ways to do so is using a helmet cam. Well, you can always go with a GoPro, but if you want the quality that is coming from a Canon 7D, you may wanna build your own rig.
The good folks at DakaKin came up with a sweet tutorial on how to mount a DSLR on a helmet. The simple rig is made with a pink helmet, a metal bar, a cheap tripod head and some weights. The nice thing is that once the camera is mounted, it is roughly at eye level so it will see whatever the shooter is seeing.
If you’re not sure what this is good for, wait for the awesome Max Payne samples at the end of the clip. (not sure Ol’ Max will wear pink though)
[How To Make The Best Helmetcam Ever via planet5D]
How To Make a Kickin’ POV Helmet Cam
It Only Takes 1 Reflector To Create Beautiful Portraits
May 16 11 AM
I know that usually this site is about more gear, but this post is about less gear. Michael Sasser of Sasser Stills uses nothing but good directing an assistant and one 5-in-1 reflector to produce gorgeous results in a senior portrait session.
I know that I am totally stealing his cat walk move from 0:30
[via SLR Lounge | Fstoppers]
It Only Takes 1 Reflector To Create Beautiful Portraits
Scanning Film Negatives With A DSLR – A Maker’s Guide
May 16 8 AM
Well, lets just say I’ve gotten better at this over the last couple of years. The left image was one of the first I’ve “scanned” with my DSLR, and the one on the right I’ve just rescanned using the techniques described below (higher resolution available here). Right now I can get higher resolution and better image quality that what street labs give you on CD.
I’ve seen many articles on the web explaining the basics of digitising film negative or transparencies with a digital camera. The basics are quite simple: you take a photo of a negative into a light source and invert. That’s it. But that alone led me to scan negatives that looked like the one on the left, above. Because I’ve never seen one tutorial that told me “the whole story” of how to do it properly, I’ve decided to put together what I’ve learnt during the last two or three of years of scanning film with my DSLR.
Scanning Film Negatives With A DSLR – A Maker’s Guide
Build A 1 Dollar Camera
May 15 12 PM
If you are upset with the money it takes to buy new gear, the next 3 parts tutorial shows how to make a 1 Dollar camera.
It is a 3 part video tutorial and there are written instructions on Money Origami Things here.
Is it easy? heck no! rewarding? I guess. At least it only costs one dollar.
