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A website about cheap digital photography ? Sign me up … The only people who I know of that talk about digital photos blabber on about megapixels, megabytes and megaprice.
I have a 5 or so year old 1.6 megapixel Olympus something or another digital camera, with zoom ! :-) I don’t even bother using it anymore because I don’t know how to setup, take, download, tweak and distribute a GOOD photo.
Gee.. that last sentence has the outlines for a whole cheapo guidebook there..
cheap lighting setups, an explanation of the basics of SLR photography… f stops, aperture, ISO speeds, etc… composting… taking “Ansel Adams” photos without a medium format camera… etc…
How about adding a quick an EZ (not to mention Cheap), light tent idea to the mix?
Many trying to get started learn of these items only after a period of time in actual shooting, I think this help many.
Also, how about adding a “homebrew” version of a macro light ring? Perhaps using LED lights?
I’m currently building a variety of pinhole lenses. A couple of them are built as rigidly as possible, allowing for an equivalent F-Stop of 100, which gives me focus from here to eternity. The others are actually made for the soft focus that they give everything, and make for interesting pastoral scenes.
The beauty of it is that you can use just a lens cover and some aluminum foil for the easiest of these, and even my most high-tech solution, which involved a T-mount (for my Nikon) and some special aluminum I picked up from the University’s chem lab, only cost me a total of about $35.
I’m being lazy this year and building a bunch of them, so that I can give them away as Christmas presents.
Thank you for the DIY macro lens.
Here is another DIY lens, the Chandlor 95mm F/2 for EOS mount.
http://imaginatorium.org/stuff/chand95.htm
I made a flash diffuser that attaches to the hotshoe on my D70s. Take a look here:
http://www.listsanddiagrams.com/archives/2005/10/diffuser.htm
Our photo club built really simple pinhole cameras a while back. We had loads of fun, and this is actually something you can do with children, to teach them about elementary physics and photography.
Enjoy the flickr-set: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kianee/sets/637472/
I ran across this website that has a few interesting DIY photography projects you may want check out… I think the ring flash idea there is actually one of the cooler ring flash ideas I’ve seen… no LEDs or anything.
http://www.dennisonbertram.com/hackmaster/hack_index.htm
I have ben scowering the internet for DIY lighting, and have yet to fiend DIY info on a defution box for light fixtures. I thank this site is pritty awsome though. Making lins adapters would be nice to see. I have some old Canon lenses and Nikon lenses and would love to be able to adapt them for use with my Canon Didital Rebal.
Hi there! I wanted to let you know that Fabrik is launching its online storage and sharing service to the general public on Monday with several new features and product enhancements just in time for Thanksgiving and the holidays. After months of being battle-tested by more than 5,000 beta users, the ultra-convenient service called myfabrik offers multiple ways of sharing and linking photos, videos, music and other content with friends and family, or posting multimedia mashups to public sites and blogs via the simple embedded player feature. Here’s one music-streaming example on a Miles Davis tribute site: http://tributetomiles.blogspot.com/. Notice that the photostrip and slideshow on the site are also created by myfabrik.
You can try the service for free with 1 GB of space for your photos, designs, mp3s or videos. For additional storage needs, myfabrik only costs 49 cents/month for each additional 1GB of space. That includes unlimited bandwidth for uploading and downloading files.
As an added bonus, Fabrik is also launching a second offering that makes file-sharing fun and easy with the same cool slideshows, photostrips and music play lists. It’s called myfabrik lite and it’s a completely free, file-sharing site that lets people send large, oversized files without clogging up their email systems. You can share one or several files up to 1GB. In less than 20 seconds, you can share your media files with friends for immediate download or auto-generate HTML code on the fly to embed streaming media content for your blog or website. You should check it out!
If you have any questions on the full-service site in advance of the launch, please don’t hesitate to contact me. And just so you know, the myfabrik homepage at http://www.myfabrik.com is being updated with a new look and feel next week.
Best,
Tony Obregon
415.365.8531 work ¤ 415.299.0832 cell
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Hi there!
I not sure if my site fits here, but i quess there are some souls out there which are interested in macro photography of flowers, perfumes and dollshouses. Well, see the beautiful world with 2500 macro images in details at http://www.flora-magica-macro.eu
hope to see you there, and dont forget to write something in my guestbook ;)
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