Category: Photography

HDRI – a photoset on Flickr

I was browsing my favorite links  when I discovered an enchanting selection of HDRI (high dynamic range imaging) images of Japan. I’m working on a few of my own using a PC tool called Photomatrix. So far it’s been easier to use than the tool in Photoshop CS2. It provides better control over your image when your stacking the images up. The tone mapping of RAW images looks unbelievably impressive, I figure that I’ll have to go back and re shoot a bunch of my photos with this method. Sounds like a good excuse to go back to Toronto, New York, Japan and Bangkok. 🙂

[discovered via Nipponkan] 

HDR – a photoset on Flickr

Cell Camera Aux Lenses

 

Now this is a cool idea. Little lenses that fit on your cell phone to give the camera in it special effects. Wide angle, telephoto, distortions… Pretty cool! And when not in use they have their own lens cover and chain to keep it with the phone, after all it wouldn’t be of much use if you didn’t have it handy when you needed it.

Gummi Phone-Cam Special Effects

DIY Extension Tube / Reverse Mount for Macro

Everyone needs a good reversing ring and a set of macro tubes for their camera. Now some people choose to buy theirs as I did my reversing ring, but others like to take up the challenge and build their own. Here is a page with instructions on how to build your own reversing ring and tube set. Have fun! 

[via MAKE] 

DIY Extension Tube / Reverse Mount for Macro

Hack a Camera – DIY Shuter Mod

My Flickr contact Nicolai_g posted a how to on adding bulb and multiple exposure capabilities to a simple ‘toy/crap’ PHD camera. You might not think that it’s worth doing but if you want to have a very cheap camera to mess with this is the way to go. I expect that the the internals of this camera are not all that different than the ones you will find in your local Goodwill or thrift store so if you can’t find this exact model you should be able to figure out the correct hack.

(BTW, in this case ‘PHD’ means ‘push here dummy’) 

Photon Detector: Tools & Reference: How to modify the Lex 35/Vivitar T100 toy camera for multiple and bulb exposures