This week on dPS it’s all about black and white photography. We are featuring a series of tips and articles around that topic. You can earlier ones below and more daily over the next few days.
Having seen the Light Blaster image projector, I wanted to know if I could build myself. Kinda out of pure curiosity. I wanted to know, is building a Light Blaster would be a task I can handle. The main idea was to mimic the Light Blaster functionality and create aslide projector that could project 35mm [...]
For some reason, we do not see a lot of innovation with tripods, I mean, it’s three legs connected with a base, what is there to innovate about? Well a designer who goes by the nameProduct Tank just invented the cleveresttripod I’ve ever seen. You see, with most tripods, you have to spread the legs, [...]
Drones seem to be regularly under attack,sometimes from lawmakers, and often from disgruntled neighbors. But rarely do we see it under attack from the air. Let’s change that, shall we? Australian photographerAdam Lancaster was taking his DJI Phantom out for an aerial stroll through the bushes of Victoria when a winged guardian of the skies [...]
A few days ago I was talking to my buddy Jim Goldstein and we reminisced about all the old discs that we used to have. Some of those will not even hold a jpg from a 2 MP camera. Assuming an raw image is 7-35MP nowadays, it is amazing that we used to carry tiny [...]
Why would you choose to create black and white photographs in the era of digital cameras that are capable of accurately capturing millions upon millions of colors? Black and white photography seems to be a constant in the history of the medium, with color technology only propagating itself into wide use around halfway between Nicphore Nipce’s first heliograph and today.
While some think that smartphone will take over cameras almost completely, I disagree. I think ‘real’ cameras are here to stay. What I do think is that smartphones are making photography much more accessible to the masses. The saying ‘if you have a smartphone you are now a photographer’ is probably truer than ever. And [...]
Street photography isa very popular genre right now, but it is nothing new. Award-winning photographerJoel Meyerowitz started his photography career in the early ’60s when photographers like Diane Arbus andLee Friedlander were roaming the sidewalks of urban communities. In a video byPhaidon Press, Joel shares some of the most fundamental elements of street photography. “What [...]
With a little imagination and know-how you can use the Lightroom Print module to create amazing layouts, which in turn you can use to create prints, postcards or even business cards. Im going to give you a couple of... more
After yesterday's Pinhole Bonanza, I am proud to serve you the Battlefield Pinhole Camera DIY tutorial.
The battlefield is a revolutionary pinhole camera that simultaneously uses 3 rolls of 35mm film to capture an image split across all three rolls. Look at the image on the left for a clue on the name origin :)
This tut has lots of details and is somewhat technical, so we will jump between... more
