Add Some Cuteness to Your Soap Bottles with Photos of Trapped People
Jill Gillen has a fun photo craft idea for customizing any clear hand sanitizer bottles you have sitting around the house: add photographs of trapped family members! She writes, I took their photos, cut them out and glue onto white paper. Then photo copy onto transparency paper (Kinkos for less than a dollar), then cut...
How Not to Shoot School Portraits
Here’s a cute and funny little short by filmmaker Nick Scott about school portraits, children, life and innocence.
The World’s Smallest Wet Plate Camera
Edward Kleindorf has a hobby of miniaturizing Victorian technology, and recently he made the world’s smallest wet plate camera using 1/32-inch plywood and other wood materials. The camera is only a little bigger than a quarter, and shoots miniature 1/2-inch square plate images. Here’s a photograph Kleindorf made using the camera: (via Wet Plate Collodion...
Dog Cam: Mount a Camera to Your Dog Using a Stick
Back in June we shared a cool (and nauseating) video of some guys throwing around a GoPro camera attached to a stick. YouTube user Lorduss1 recently did something similar… except with his dog. He mounted a GoPro camera to a stick, gave it to his...
Baby Arthur Recreates Famous Scenes From Classic Movies
Writer Emily Cleaver takes adorable photographs of her infant son Arthur that recreate famous scenes of classic films. Can you guess the movies these photos are referencing? Here they are: Blair Witch Project, American Beauty, The Shining, Godfather (the horse head scene), and The Seventh Seal. You can find more of these photographs here. Arthur...
Funny Photo Props: The Dog Stache
Check out this Humunga Stache dog toy — it’s a rubber ball toy that adds some culture to photos of your dog by giving it a massive mustache. They cost $10 each over on Amazon. Humunga Stache (via Laughing Squid) P.S. According to customer reviews, the toy apparently isn’t very durable — even more of...
Turn an Unwanted Globe Into a Unique Photo Display
For her husband’s 40th birthday, Jen had the idea of turning an old, unwanted globe into a unique photo gift showing “his world”. She printed photographs onto white tissue paper, and then adhered the photographs to the globe using Mod Podge. Head on over to her site for a step-by-step walkthrough. My Husband’s “World” [By...
Colorful and Clever Camera Decorations
These Diana cameras were decorated and auctioned for Lomography’s Diana World Tour this year. If you regularly photograph young children, giving your camera a colorful costume can help make it a lot less intimidating (Camera Creatures work well t...
Canon 400mm Lens Keychain Flashlight
Canon once sold these telephoto lens keychain flashlights in its online store for $7. They’re out of stock now, but they sometimes appear on eBay for about $15. They perform quite well in low light situations.Image credit: Photograph by gary_came...
Brothers Add Director’s Commentaries to Old Home Videos