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More awesome photogram roundups at Slowlight

Nicolai Morrisson — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 10:04:52 +0000

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.

Amazing photogram roundup at Slowlight

Nicolai Morrisson — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 14:35:17 +0000

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

DIY under- & above-water macro photography roundup at MAKE

Nicolai Morrisson — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 10:05:51 +0000

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

Weird pinhole camera roundup

Nicolai Morrisson — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 19:22:36 +0000

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. Note that many of these links have construction instructions!

alspix‘s matchbox cam
Wayne Martin Belger‘s Third Eye Camera (human skull) and heaps of other weird and beautiful stuff
CameraTruck is self-explanatory
Melsen Carlsen‘s vagina
Katie Cooke‘s holiday card box cam; photos made with it and other pinholes
Travis Gray‘s Mr. Photato Head (Mr. Potato Head toy)
Adrian Hanft‘s Lego cameras: 35mm, medium format, photos made with them
Marcus Kaiser used the Berlin Wall
Chris Keeney‘s SPAMera (Spam tin, pictured above) and Mintycam (mint tin)
The Legacy Project just set a world record for the largest camera and largest photograph using an airplane hangar
Marcy Merrill‘s Pintoids (Altoids tin)
Chris Peregoy built a pinhole out of a coconut, but I can’t find any info on it other than this
Rodrigo Perez‘s large rubbish bin camera
Martin Pilný, Mirek Kolář, and Richard Vyškovský’s Dirkon paper camera
Thomas Hudson Reeve‘s cameras made entirely of photo paper
Justin Quinnell‘s SmileyCam (his mouth) and toilet paper tube

If you’re looking to build your own, f295 Lensless Photography Discussion Forum is a great resource full of freakishly helpful camera hackers.

Know of anything I missed? Tell us!

Fine art matte inkjet paper roundup

Nicolai Morrisson — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 18:22:37 +0000

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 ‘Aesthetic Comments after I Power Slammed the Technician Out of the Way’ for people who just care about how their art actually looks."

Couldn’t have said it better myself (so I didn’t).

Read the roundup at Camera Hobby

Via One Stop Under