A Lesser Photographer - A Manifesto — A Lesser Photographer. Special thanks to Tom Polous, who shot the above photo. That’s me, with my trusty compact camera, awestruck by a massive storm front over Lake Michigan. That storm battered us a few minutes later with heavy wind, rain and lightning as we hid behind a dune, trying to protect our cameras. It serves to remind me: the real show is outside the viewfinder. Introduction Since the age of twelve, I’ve been obsessed with photography. By any measure, this is a passion. Much like a car mechanic would remember the years by the cars he owned, I remember 1994 as the year of my Minolta X-700 or 1996 as the year I stepped up to a Fuji GS645. The digital age only reinforced my desire to own ever more capable equipment as brands consolidated.
I put that question to rest for myself a few years ago, when I was hiking through Starved Rock State Park in Illinois with my friend, Tom. After a few minutes on the trail, we encountered two locals, both with Canon DSLRs. There’s something to this. Go Amateur. 19 Wonderful Peach Pictures. CHDK Wiki. How To Give Your Camera an Instant Upgrade. If you own a point-and-shoot digital camera, there's a likely chance that it's a Canon PowerShot. We like these nimble cameras for their portability, fine image quality, and relatively low price. But there are some things these cameras just can't do, such as shoot in RAW formats or provide the same kind of photo setting tweaks and feedback as prosumer DSLRs. Unless you do some hacking, of course. The Camera Hack Development Kit (CHDK) is a community-developed firmware that replaces the software that runs your PowerShot.
Find your camera's model number and firmware version ver.req on your computer and put it in the root directory of your camera's SD memory card. Download and load CHDK CHDK website and browsed the list of firmware files. Configure CHDK's menu options CHDK's menu is much more complicated than the PowerShot's default menu. Set up CHDK to boot at startup. Free printable cardboard lens hoods. NoFilmSchool. Tamrac 5788 Evolution 8 Photo/Laptop Sling Backpack Bag (Black): Camera & Photo.
Evolution Series Photo Sling Backpacks. Lytro. Photography community, including forums, reviews, and galleries from Photo.net. How to Make a Cheap and Easy Ikea Time Lapse Panning Unit Part 3. Two years ago I put together the original How To Make An Egg Timer Timelapse Panning Unit. I made the original timers for work back in 2008, to provide panning timelapses for extra b-roll for projects I was shooting. I had no idea the how popular these cheap little gadgets would become, go figure. I guess I'm not the only timelapse photo geek out here. One of the constant comments I get is that they are too hard to build and they are ugly. Frankly, I find them easy to build and I don't care how they look. Parts One of the great things about these Ikea timers is that they are cheap. Your Complete Guide For Photographing Star Trails. Ever seen those pictures where the stars streak across the sky in a big arc?
Or maybe the whole sky looked like it was spinning? What you saw was star trails. The streaks were light left behind on the sensor or film from the star as it traveled across the sky in front of an open camera shutter. In fact, it only seems that way. What actually being recorded are stationary stars and the rotation of the earth that makes them spin. Kinda like you were standing on a vinyl record while it is playing.
(yes, vinyl record, it is a form of ancient iPod). For me, the images seem to have a certain magic or mystery about them. 150 minutes of night sky taken on Salt Spring Island in Canada What Will You Need? Before you gas up the car and head out in to the night, check the short list below to make sure you have all the required gear. A camera capable of shooting in “Bulb” modeA sturdy tripodA cable release Some things that you will find useful but are not necessary to get started would be Focusing Stacking. Super Easy DIY Rechargeable Battery Power Pack For Event Photographers. A few days ago I met Ron Uriel (hebrew site) at an event he was shooting.
Aside from the camera and on camera flash (got forbid) he was also carrying a small impact flash on a light stand, taking it along and using it as on the go bounce flash. The beauty of the thing was that the flash was not attached to any power outlet, but sustained using a DIY battery pack. I asked Ron to share how he made it, and he luckily for DIYP he agreed. When it comes to on-location photography, I tend to KISS (Keep It Simple Sweetheart).
This means that I prefer carrying the minimal amount of gear and focus on photography rather than on set up and tear down. That is where my quest for portable lights began. My goal was to arrange a portable lighting setup for shooting at events where rapid movement is needed and there is very little control over where the shots are taken. My portable flash configuration is made of two elements: Low power flash = an advantage for event photographers The Battery The Inverter. Everything You Wanted To Know About Light Painting. If you love photography and you love painting, imagine how much you would love light painting. It is called painting with light because this is what you are actually doing while taking the shot – painting with light. Aside from being darn beautiful form of photography, it is also a pretty darn cool to spend an evening or a night.
The requirements are very minimal you would need a camera that you can set on long exposure, a tripod and some light, light a flash light, matches or one of the oh-so-cool gadgets I’ll share below. If you want to get the general idea, a great place to do it is here, and if you want the jump start treatment, you can get it here. The last thing you will need is tools, we will cover tool in a little while, but if you want to get a feel for the variety of things you can do check out this post. No Really, What Are You Talking About? But of course I would not have made such a statement without some pictures to prove it.
Techniques Give People An Aura Using Light Painting. Free Tethered Shooting for Canon digital SLR cameras. This guide will show you how to set up a way to do fullscreen tethered shooting using readily available software for your Canon digital SLR. What is tethered shooting? Tethered shooting is where your camera is plugged into a computer, either via a wire or a wifi connection. This allows you to save time by transferring images directly from your camera to your computer as you take each shot, thus bypassing the slow process of writing to the memory card and avoiding the risk of running out of storage space at a critical moment. Tethered shooting is great for studio and macro photography, where you can review the fullscreen previews of each photo on a full size monitor or LCD television.
This makes it much easier to judge how the photos are turning out and what lighting or focussing adjustments may be necessary. Hardware and Software Requirements You can do tethered shooting with any Canon digital SLR and the USB cable that is supplied with the camera. Setting up tethered shooting Go to , . CheesyCam » DIY Video and Photography Projects.
Make your own book. Make it great. Ifoundyourcamera.net | Found Cameras and Orphan Pictures. Technicolor Picture Profile: DOWNLOAD HERE » cinema5D news. BACK TO THE FUTURE : Irina Werning - Photographer. I love old photos. I admit being a nosey photographer. As soon as I step into someone else’s house, I start sniffing for them. Most of us are fascinated by their retro look but to me, it’s imagining how people would feel and look like if they were to reenact them today… Two years ago, I decided to actually do this. So, with my camera, I started inviting people to go back to their future.. Now its time for KOREA, TAIWAN AND TOKYO. If you live here and want to participate in my project, email me amazing old pictures to : backtothefuturepics@gmail.com Pancho 1983 & 2010, Buenos Aires Fer 1970 & 2010 Buenos Aires Mechi 1990 & 2010 Buenos Aires Marita y Coty 1977 & 2010 Bs Aires Demian 1989 & 2010 London Cecile 1987 & 2010 France Nico Mella 1990 & 2010 France Oscar 1978 & 2010 Buenos Aires Ato 1992 & 2010 Buenos Aires Lulu Geraldine 1980 & 2010 Bs Aires Ian 1983 & 2010 London Male Sil Flor 1983 & 2010 Bs Aires Nico 1986 & 2010 Buenos Aires Lucía 1956 & 2010 Buenos Aires Marina 1988 & 2010 Buenos Aires.
Satellite Photos - Japan Before and After Tsunami - Interactive Feature. JORDAN METAL ART ™ Nyiragongo Crater: Journey to the Center of the World. Image Fulgurator. Foto by Richard Wilhelmer The Image Fulgurator is a device for physically manipulating photographs. It intervenes when a photo is being taken, without the photographer being able to detect anything. The manipulation is only visible on the photo afterwards. In principle, the Fulgurator can be used anywhere where there is another camera nearby that is being used with a flash. It operates via a kind of reactive flash projection that enables an image to be projected on an object exactly at the moment when someone else is photographing it. The intervention is unobtrusive because it takes only a few milliseconds. Every photo another photographer takes of an object at which the Fulgurator is also aimed is affected by the manipulation.
Convert Your Old Camera To A Backdrop Projector In 10 Easy Steps. If you own one of them 90′s film cameras and stopped using it because digital is so hip right now, you’re gonna dust it off once you’re done reading this tutorial. In this tutorial photographer Richard Hill is going to explain how to convert your old film camera combined with a strobe into a background generator (which pros also like to call Cookie Projector or a gobo projector). We featured a strobe based background generator before, which was based on a box and Fresnel lenses. This time around the shades can be way more delicate. Here comes Richard: When I set about making my DIY 35mm Cookie projector it was very much an experiment. 1) Source an old 35mm film camera. 2) Remove the back door of the camera. 3) Next you need to remove the shutter curtain and mirror. 4) You should now have a camera body with no back and a big hole in the middle. 5) Reattaching the lens you can look through the back and see the world upside down. 6) The next step is to create your slide.
A note on focusing. If You Build This Fulgurator-on-the-Cheap, Use it for Good. I totally missed this on DIYPhotography.net until Alim Kassim clued me via Twitter. A little bit of quick and easy DIY (and ball bungees!) Turns an old film camera into a focusing strobe projector. You can actually buy these things for some models of big lights, but they will cost you some serious coin. I'd probably use one differently than did the photog on DIYP. Like maybe painting numbers or something three-dimensionally onto someone's face or something. Great idea to keep in the back pocket, tho. If it looks familiar, it is a simplified version of the "Image Fulgurator" created by photographer Julius von Bismark.
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