"This reflector panel holder made of 3/4 inch PVC pipe is handy if you have a spare tripod to use. The tripod provides a stable base that can be adjust for height and tilt angle. Reflector is the collapseable type used for an auto windshield (31 x 38 inches)…"
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Via MAKE Blog
"A flexible lighting system is something that I have wanted to play with for a while, but like everything else in photography it seems to be a fairly expensive area to get into, at least when you consider the relative simplicity of a light-bulb.
"Thankfully there are a number of cheap and widely-available or easily-made items […]
"To do this, all that is needed is a Polaroid Land camera, some small screwdrivers, and a small sheet of thin metal. These cameras can be found on eBay, or better yet, at yard sales. It will be made into a pinhole camera with several pinholes that can be switched into place, for use in […]
Continue reading...Luminous Landscape has just posted an interview with Jack Showalter, president of Hasselblad USA, by fine arts photographer Pete Myers.
"Between sales of Hasselblad scanners and Hasselblad film cameras, as well as our unique position as being a manufacturer of medium format film and digital solutions, I can assure you that film remains extremely important to […]
Hot on the heels of their well-received Stylus rotary tool announcement, Dremel have just announced a new 220 Workstation mounting kit that can be used as a drill press, tool holder, and flex shaft holder.
Check it out at Dremel or Amazon
I’ve been wanting a drill press mount for camera building and modifying, and for $45, […]
Darren of One Stop Under writes:
"Edwin Leong over at CameraHobby.com has done a nice roundup review of several fine art matte inkjet papers from Crane, Legion, and Moab.
"I like the way Edwin has published two sets of results - one titled ‘Technical, Nitpicky and Anal-Retentive Comments’ to keep the pixel peepers happy, and one titled […]
"On Wednesday, 2006 March 29, a total eclipse of the Sun will be visible from within a narrow corridor which traverses half the Earth. The path of the Moon’s umbral shadow begins in Brazil and extends across the Atlantic, northern Africa, and central Asia where it ends at sunset in western Mongolia. A partial […]
Continue reading...Paul Butzi writes in his blog entry, Another Instant Classic from Ted Orland on The Online Photographer:
I had been thinking pretty hard about photography and art when I came across a book that Orland had co-written with David Bayles, Art and Fear: Observations on the Perils and Rewards of Artmaking. This little book asks (and […]
Continue reading...AlternativePhotography.com have two new how-tos up, one each for woodburytype and ziatype printing.
Woodburytype
"The woodbury type/woodbury process by Nicolai Klimaszewski is an interesting take on carving. Read and learn."
"Woodburytype images are made by pouring a translucent mixture of pigments suspended in warm gelatin onto a relief surface, then transferring this pigment layer onto paper. In […]
Excerpt from by "The Pinhole Camera Revisited or The Revenge of the Simple-Minded Engineer", by Kjell Carlsson:
"The image of a point object, the Point Spread Function (PSF),
should be as small as possible to produce a sharp image.
"Geometrical optics approximation: Hole should be as small as possible.
"Fraunhofer diffraction approximation: Hole should be as large as […]
