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An Inspiring Stop-Motion Video (Modest Mouse Fan Video)

Photo tipsadmin29 June 2007

modestmouse stop motion videoStop-motion photography ain’t easy. It requires patience, patience, planning, patience, and a whole lot of patience.

So we gotta hand it to Max Tyrie and his friends — to create their stop-motion rendition of Modest Mouse’s “Missed the Boat”, they took original footage from the group, printed it out frame-by-frame on 4,133 sheets of paper, then took photos of those sheets of paper with a digital camera. Finally, they assembled thousands of photos into a four-and-a-half minute stop-motion video.

Wow. It’s not that we can’t imagine the amount of effort that went into this, we can, it’s that it’s almost painful to think about. Still, watching the result brings a smile to our face. It’s magical.

Watch the video, then check out this Photojojo tutorial on How to Make Stop-Motion Video with your Digital Camera.

Max Tyrie’s Hand Made Modest Mouse Stop-Motion

p.s. Check it out — one of our favorite design blogs recently gave a shout-out to the unique design of the new Photojojo Forum!


From the Forum…
+ What’s more important? Your camera, or how you use it?
+ Vista won’t recognize my camcorder!
+ How do you organize your printed photos?


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Location as important as technique when shooting fireworks

About photographyadmin27 June 2007

Fireworks by Mr Magoo ICUJuly 4th is just around the corner and with that comes another opportunity to get that classic fireworks shot you’ve always dreamed of. We’ve already covered the techniques you need to know and equipment necessary to shoot fireworks well. The methods are the same as last year. But an important point to keep in mind is that vantage point and location (especially secret locations like the one in the photo at right) are just as important as technique.

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A DIY Windscreen for your Digital Camera: Silence the Wind Noise in your Digital Video

Photo tipsadmin26 June 2007

use gauze to make your own windscreenWoo-fooput-fooput-fooput-ey-whoooo ook-over-ooooo-ere.

Sound familiar? If you’ve taken digital video at the beach or anywhere on a windy day, you’ve probably dealt with sound cut-outs as wind whips past your camera’s built-in mic. Modern camcorders have had wind-dampening circuitry for ages. Alas, most digital cameras still don’t.

Thankfully, Stephen Uber sent a great DIY solution to the popphoto blog: Make a windscreen by taping the gauze-like padding of an adhesive bandage over your camera’s mic. (It’s usually a single pinhole on the front face of your camera.) Voila! Wind noise dramatically reduced.

(A perfect mod for the flip video so many of you told us you loved.)

Found a great camera hack recently, or come up with your own?

Post your camera hacks here!


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Fascinating video of new photo technology on the horizon

About photographyadmin24 June 2007

Photo Synth demoI’ve just watched an amazing video demonstration of two new digital media technologies codenamed Photosynth and Seadragon (both recently acquired by Microsoft). Seadragon is a slick and and powerful viewing system for what the presenter calls “multi-scale mediums”. That is, viewing media with both large and small details like a newspaper (headlines vs. fine print) or photographs (entire galleries vs. details of a single photo).

Photosynth is much more compelling as it can aggregate images of a single subject from various sources (all photos on Flickr tagged “Notre Dame” in the example) and combine them into a new, richer view of the environment that is more valuable than the sum of the individual photos separately. The description doesn’t do it justice. You really need to watch the video to understand what is going on here.

The presenter concludes by talking about how we now have the technology to create “immensely rich virtual models of every interesting part of the earth collected not just from overhead flights and from satellite images and so on but from the collective memory.” Simply amazing.

Watch the video

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5 practical tips for cutting your own mats

About photographyadmin23 June 2007

RulerI don’t know if I hate cutting mats because I only do it a few times a year or if I only do it a few times a year because I hate it. If I did it more often I’d certainly be better at it which theoretically would mean it was easier for me. I mostly stick with standard, easy to find sizes. But once in a while I go off my rocker and want to do some goofy size and convince myself that it’ll be great to save a bunch of money doing it myself. I just finished cutting a bunch of mats tonight and probably saved about $100. But now I’m all grumpy. If you’ve likewise taken leave of your senses, here are some tips (to supplement the instructions that come with your mat cutter) that may help you keep your sanity:

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Put Words in Anyone’s Mouth with Blabberize

Photo tipsadmin22 June 2007

talking alpacaNo longer will crudely-drawn talking heads the likes of which you’ve seen on Southpark and Homestar Runner be the sole province of animation sweatshops in Asia.

Yes friends, two enterprising young go-getters have finally cracked the code.

Surf on over to Blabberize, upload a photo of a human, animal, or your favorite anthropomorphic object, and carefully select the lower jaw with the tools provided. Next, hit record and speak some words of wisdom. A click or two later and your photo comes to life and repeats your words right back at you.

Share it with friends, embed it in your blog, you know the drill. Check out blabberized Alfred the guinea pig and Michael Arrington for a taste, then get to work!

Blabberize [via Lifehacker]


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Photodoto Photo: single tree

About photographyadmin21 June 2007

single tree
single tree, originally uploaded by FujiBlonde.

Photos posted in this category are selected from the contributions of members of the Photodoto discussion group at Flickr.com.

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Different Daisies

Photo Artadmin20 June 2007

Here are two older pieces I got off my other computer. One is of the Daisies closed up to sleep and the other is a mutant daisy. I love it!

You can find a larger image of both under Flowers Part 5 on the sidebar.

A Different Daisy

Sleeping Daisy

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Pismo Pelican Rock

Photo Artadmin20 June 2007

I don't know the name of this rock, but it is big. This photo is 5 photos stitched together.  It prints 24x60 inches. I was reading a camping blog and someone was going to go to Pismo and it made me think of this photo and the Pelican photos I took there.

Larger images of these photos can be viewed under Pelicans on sidebar.

Pismo Pelican Rock sm

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Yahoo! Photos Users Switching to Flickr

About photographyadmin20 June 2007

On Wednesday (June 13th), Yahoo! Photos began encouraging its users to switch to Flickr.com and other online photo sharing sites in preparation for their September 20th closing. However, the service is effectively closed now if you do not already have an account or have never uploaded photos there as they are not accepting new accounts.

Meanwhile, uploads on Flickr.com are going through the roof. From June 1 to June 12, Flickr averaged about 1.5 million uploads per day. From June 13 to June 18, Flickr averaged 4.1 million uploads, a 173% increase.

Click the chart below to see it larger:

Flickr Uploads by Day June 1 to June 18

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