There are so many innocent things you can do with drones that don’t involve spying on other people. And, for enthusiasts who love flying around, but don’t want to bother with a pilot’s license, the perfect hobby is: drone flying. Here’s how amateur drone enthusiasts do it and capture amazing footage. Get Altitude Most of the time, people want to ...
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Star Wars In Real Life
Canadian photographer Thomas Dagg digitally enhanced his photography to integrate the sci-fi awesome of Star Wars into everyday life.
Read More »The Brickening: A Functioning Camera Made Out of A Single LEGO Brick
This functioning photography device is fit completely into a two-stud LEGO brick, which acts as a pinhole camera.
Read More »Muku Shuttr Lets You Take Selfies From Afar
Muku Shuttr connects to your phone via Bluetooth. Press the button and your phone takes the picture, no go-go-gadget arm necessary.
Read More »Lighting Drone to the Photographer’s Rescue
For those of you who enjoy photography, lighting is a perennial concern. Firstly, it takes forever to perfectly position the lighting in your set. Secondly, it takes all of 5 seconds of moving on part of the model to foil your efforts. Researchers at MIT, though, have an impressive solution. They propose using fleets of drones to automatically light your shoot. ...
Read More »The Horizon App Shoots All Of Your Videos In Landscape
If you are a frequent videographer with your iOS device then chances are that at some point you have shot a video using portrait mode, well now the Horizon app can help!
Read More »Astronomers Play With A Camera 20 Years In The Making
For the past 20 years, astronomers have been refining a camera that promised the sharpest pictures possible of the night sky. The new camera is now being deployed at the high altitude Magellan telescope in Chile's Atacama desert.
Read More »Road Kill Stylee: Cameras Made Out of Turtle and Armadillo Byproducts
Harkening back to the stone age, when cavemen had to use animal parts to build their digital cameras, Swiss artists Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs used turtles, armadillos and horns to fabricate the build for theses functioning digital camera.
Read More »Food Photography is Cliche; Photos of Hipsters Taking Photos of Food is Not
Food photography as an art form has become a "thing". Which basically means that hipsters have ran any artistic merit that food photography once held into the ground. Luckily for us, taking pictures of hipsters taking pictures of food is still amusing, and is quickly becoming a "thing" itself thanks to the single-serving Tumblr blog, "Pictures of Hipsters Taking Pictures of Food."
Read More »Teach Me How To Vader: New “Vadering” Meme Harnesses the Force
And just like that, "Vadering" was a thing. And God said it was good. Twitching through the Twitter and Facebook wire is a new craze which pairs photography and Darth Vader's stranglehold.
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