The All.Round Camera Concept: A Bendy Take on the DSLR
Concept products aren’t a rarity. In the world of cars and computers concepts usually make us ooh and ahh at their beautiful styling and implied functionality, but in the world of cameras things can get a bit, strange. Such is the case with a new SLR concept by industrial designer Arti Patel called the All.Round...
Camera Phones Used for Augmented Reality Presentations in London Museum
Typically, augmented reality falls somewhere between technological breakthrough and really cool thing to show your friends; but in the Science Museum in London’s Making of the Modern World exhibit, augmented reality also takes up the mantle of education. Using the $3 Science Stories app, visitors to the museum can point their iOS or Android devices...
Clever Photos Showing Famous Movie Posters from Behind
Here’s a clever advertisement idea done by Brazilian ad agency Y&R Sao Paulo and photographer Lúcio Cunha. They took the iconic posters of famous movies (Kill Bill, Forrest Gump, and Pretty Women) and created photos showing what they would look like if viewed from behind. The ads are meant to promote a new surround sound...
The Impossible Project’s COOL Instant Film Takes a Cue from Coors Beer
You wouldn’t think the world of instant film could learn much from the world of beer — and on most counts you’d be right — but in this particular case, a little bit of Coors inspiration may have played a role in The Impossible Projects new line of COOL Polaroid films. The specialty instant film,...
Glimpses of World War 2 Seen Through Photos of Modern Day Europe
After collecting old World War 2 photographs taken in major European cities, Russian photographer Sergey Larenkov spent a year traveling around Europe to re-photograph the same scenes as they look today. He then carefully combined the old images with the new ones to create photographs that show two views of the same location captured over...
Concept Push Pins That Light Up Photos in the Dark
Light Up Your Memories is a concept product by designers Hwang Youn Ha, Kim Min Jeong, Cha Yoon Suk & Kim Yong Ha that features push pins that light up at night, giving light to photographs that you have pinned up on your walls. Along with the light-up pins, the system incorporates a pin-up board...
Rotobooth is a Photo Booth Powered by a Rotary Phone
Created by Chris Bell, Liangjie Xia, and Mike Kelberman, Rotobooth is a novel new photo booth with a twist — literally. It’s powered by a hacked rotary phone and shoots a photo after the user dials their cell phone number. The image is then automatically uploaded to Flickr and a link to the photo is...
Engagement Photo Taken in the Middle of a Freeway
Photographer Cynthia Chung got engaged in October of last year and recently decided to try her hand at shooting her own engagement photographs. After traveling around with her fiancé to various places with her fiancé cameras, lenses, a tripod, and a remote, the couple spontaneously decided to try something slightly crazy: [...] we headed back...
Ruined Polaroid Pictures as Abstract Art
While many photographers aim for technical perfection, photographer William Miller goes the opposite route. After “rescuing” an old and barely functional Polaroid SX-70 instant camera from a yard sale, he began taking advantage of its glitches by viewing the resulting photographs as abstract art. He states, The camera sometimes spills out 2 pictures at a...
Light Painting Combined with Bullet Time
Light painting and bullet time are both amazing photographic techniques on their own, but what happens when you combine them? The amazing video above by Richard Kendall and his team shows just that: three dimensional light painting captured with a 360...
Instagr/am/bient Music Project Draws Inspiration from Instagram Photos
Inspiration can come in all forms, and even though some people people might not find Instagram photography inspiring, online ambient music publication Disquiet had the great idea of asking musicians to compose music based on shots taken using the popular camera app. collecting 25 Instagram photos shot by ambient musicians and issuing the following challenge: If...
