Archive for April, 2006

Create your own IR filter

A digital camera sees more infrared than we do, and all you need to do to capture it, is to block out all the visible (non-infrared) light. You can buy filters that do this, but they can be ridiculously expensive - and buying stuff removes all the fun of creating stuff, n'est-ce pas?

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Macro with compact cameras

We've featured a lot of macro stuff here on Photocritic before. Most of it has been focused around taking macro photos with an SLR camera. But what do you do when you don't have an SLR? Are you out of luck? Not at all! My friend Cameron kindly offered to write an introduction for Photocritic to what you can do if you have to use a compact digital camera for your macro photos...

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Introduction to kite photography

I have been knowing I had to do something on kite photography for ages, but I've been dreading it, because there are already so many great pages out there that deal with kite photography. The idea is simple: You take a kite, and tie a camera to it. Then, you fly the kite, and you set off the camera somehow, taking photos from the unusual viewpoint of a bird. It's actually not entirely unlike what the world-famous French photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand is doing, sans helicopter. Example Kite-assisted photo by goodmolecules, via flickr's KAP photos

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