Katie Cooke has posted two more amazing roundups of photograms—prints made by placing objects directly on photo paper or film, without a camera or lens—at her Slowlight Blog. Roundup three: Chemigrams & luminograms, chemistry & light Roundup four: Photograms: botanics, bugs, and bodies See first roundup list for more links and resources.

Katie Cooke has posted two amazing roundups of photograms—prints made by placing objects directly on photo paper or film, without a camera or lens—at her Slowlight Blog. Roundup one: Sunprints, shadowprints and photograms Roundup two: Luminograms, bodygrams, and photograms Related resources: photogram.org, Flickr groups Photograms and Photogram

There’s a nice roundup of DIY macro photography hacks for above and blow sea level at MAKE Blog.

The great thing about making cameras is that they’re really dead simple: box + light detector (film or sensor) + hold for light = camera. When there’s no lens involved, there’s heaps of room for creativity. While many people opt for more traditional materials like wood, metal, foamcore, or modify an existing camera, some people go all out.

Here’s a [doubtless incomplete] roundup of some of the stranger things I’ve seen people make pinhole cameras out of, to date…

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 [...]