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Jollylook, a Ukrainian photography gear company, has launched a Kickstarter campaign for the Jollylook Pinhole, an instant film camera DIY kit. The campaign has already met its $20,000 funding goal, which is great news for the Ukrainian team, who had to depart its homeland after the Russian invasion and restart its...
Manufacturers, such as OM (formerly known as Olympus), Canon, Nikon and Sony, have all released cameras featuring sophisticated autofocus modes designed specifically for tracking high-speed subjects, such as cars and motorcycles. These modern cameras work amazingly well and capture sharp, high-resolution photos in...
Photographer Michael Clark puts Adobe's new Super Resolution feature to the test
First seen on DPReview, photographer Michael Clark recently published a blog post putting Adobe's new Super Resolution enhancement tool to the test. Super Resolution launched earlier this month as part of an Adobe Camera Raw update. The...
Over at The Slanted Lens, photographer Jay P. Morgan has some great tips for creating your own lighting setup at home.
While Morgan has done a similar video before, now he's doing it again using LED lights. There are numerous advantages to LED lights. They're fairly inexpensive, for example, and they are continuous. In...
In today's edition of Shutter Release, we have a handful of interesting videos to share with you along with a written tutorial for creating double exposures in Photoshop. The first video shows off "the world's fastest camera slider." Next up is a tutorial for using Photoshop and smart objects to dodge and burn skin for...
A beauty dish is a popular light modifier. Despite its name, a beauty dish does not make for easy beautiful light. Rather, it requires a lot of skill to use as it does not soften or diffuse light. A beauty dish reflects light, which can be useful when trying to focus light in a particular direction. They are typically...
For users of interchangeable lens cameras, having an issue with sensor dust is something of an inevitability. Many camera retailers and even camera manufacturers offer sensor cleaning services, but these can be expensive and time-consuming, especially if you must send your camera away for it to be cleaned.
Cleaning...
Shutter Release is a running series here on Imaging Resource in which we share with you several interesting articles and videos we find around the web. We give you a quick rundown of the article or sometimes just share a video with you and let the content speak for itself. There is a lot of great content out there and...
We hope that you all had a great weekend. Now let’s get this week started off right with five interesting photography stories and videos. Today’s selection includes a juxtaposition in motorsports photography, a new fast prime lens from Japan, a behind-the-scenes look at a colorful portrait session, the importance of...
Strobes can be very expensive, ranging from hundreds of dollars well into the thousands. If you're just starting out, the cost of artificial lighting can be prohibitive. Fortunately, every day a bright, very useful light source rises above the horizon, its lighting prowess just waiting to be harnessed. Professional...
When sharing DIY photography projects we see on the web, we try to ensure that they strike a balance between utility, cost and achievability. This one from Mats Wernersson might not check that last box for most of us because he built his own Petzval-inspired 90mm f/2.8 lens, even machining the glass himself. So while...
If you love photography – and I think you do if you’re reading this – and also LEGO bricks, then you will thoroughly enjoy what Dutch filmmaker Victor Bart has created.
Bart built not only a camera slider track, which is just over 45 inches (115 millimeters) long, using LEGO bricks, but also the dolly and the remote....
John Park, a maker for Adafruit Industries, has written a comprehensive tutorial for building your own light box at home, perfect for product photography and other small-scale still life work.
The list of required materials is quite short and everything is easily sourced. For the softbox itself, you will need a 30” x...
DIY Photography has shared a pair of excellent videos. The first is about lens calibration and how to make your own DIY lens calibration solution. There are professional solutions you can purchase, such as Datacolor’s SpyderLensCal, which while highly regarded costs about $60 and could be overkill for someone who just...
There are many motorized slider options available, but they can be very pricey. For photographers who want the advantages of a motorized slider but don’t want to shell out big bucks, a little DIY knowledge, some supplies and about US$75 is all you need.
What do you need to make your very own motorized slider? A manual...
Do you want the Lensbaby look without paying the Lensbaby price? Photographer Randy Snook has created a tutorial that shows you how to make your own soft focus DSLR lens for around US$15, which he calls "The Pipe Dream."
Why Pipe Dream? Because you make the lens using a pipe. You need a PVC joint union pipe piece, a...
Built-in flashes offer a lot of convenience, but they typically don’t provide very good results. They produce harsh light, unappealing shadows and a very flat look. However, the Koldunov Brothers have an excellent and affordable way to get dramatically better results from your camera’s pop-up flash.
All you need is a...
You don’t need fancy equipment or filters to create distinct lens effects, such as flare or a dreamy vignette. Photographer Peter McKinnon created a video which showcases eight easy “camera hacks” which he often uses when in the field.
All the objects he uses can be easily carried on your person and are mostly...
Christmas is just around the corner and there may very well be photographers on your list who need a gift. The Cooperative of Photography has made a video featuring nine last-minute gifts for the shutterbug on your list.
The range of nine gifts are all easy to make, but the easiest is likely their first, a customized...
If you went to any Halloween parties this weekend, you surely saw some cool and clever costumes, but I bet you didn't see a fully-functional camera costume. Photographer Bryan Troll crafted his very own Nikon camera body costume that not only looks the part, but actually functions.
After about 40 hours of cutting,...