How to Make Tiny Planets in Google Street View
| Hackers do more than type fast and indiscriminately hax0r the interwebs. The best kind of hacker? They’re the ones that take neat stuff apart to make even neater stuff. …Like Stereographic Street View! It’s an adapted version of Google’s Street View that turns any place on Earth* into a fish-eyed globe a.k.a. a tiny planet! [...] |  |
#From Where I Stand, Skyscraper Edition
| You’ve taken #From Where I Stand shots in a snowy field, in line at the market, on 8 mile hikes and down alleyways in far-off countries. The last frontier? The ledge of your town’s highest skyscraper. Sounds scary, but once you scale your way up and point your camera down, you’ll fall in love with [...] |  |
CES Mania — Our Roundup of the Raddest New Camera Releases!
| We’re at CES this week! That stands for Consumer Electronics Show, a convention of the latest in gadgets of all kinds, but best of all: cameras. You’ll find booths for everything from Hello Kitty to Nikon, Fuji, and Polaroid. Because all the sensor sizes, f-stops and long-winded terminology* start to melt into a foggy photo [...] |  |
How to Make an Epic Facebook Timeline Cover Photo
| It’s a torturous choice–having to pick *just one* photo for your Facebook Timeline cover. You’ve narrowed it down to 10. It’d be a shame to hurt any of your photos feelings by leaving them out. We offer up this thought: use all of them. Pic Scatter turns an album of your photos into a photo [...] |  |
10 Tips to Make Your Phone Photos Amazing;Plus, Our New Phoneography Blog!
| Phoneography is the best. No matter where you go, you’ve got a camera. Not just any camera, but a camera that lets you share your photos in that same instant with all your friends. We love sharing tips, project ideas, apps & inspiration so much, we decided to start a whole new blog about how [...] |  |
Turn Your Photos into Beautiful Glass Etchings!
| Extra photos for bloggers: 1, 2, 3 Before printers spewed out photos on paper, photos were printed on glass! Sure, that sounds like the kind of thing your Uncle Buck would make up, but we’re telling you, it’s totally true. Just to prove it, here’s a tutorial on how to put your own photos on [...] |  |
The iPhone Lens Wallet Keeps Your Cell Lenses in One Place
| Check out that sweet collection of lenses for your smarty-pants phone. You’re prepared for everything, aren’t ya? Alas, it never fails. Somehow, the lens you need is always nestled in the deep recesses of your bag. Your solution: the iPhone Lens Wallet! It keeps all of your favorite cell lenses in one handy case. It’s [...] |  |
The Cam Caddie Makes Your DSLR Vids Smooth as the Pros’
| If those hapless videographers from “The Blair Witch Project” knew about The Cam Caddie, they’d still be doomed, but we’d all be less queasy. This light-as-air handheld stabilizer uses the weight of your camera to cleanse your DSLR vids of jerks and jolts. The design’s awesomely simple: a curved handle mounts your camera via the [...] |  |
The Photorito Lens Wrap
| That sweet lens of yours looks good enough to eat. That boring lens wrap on it? Not so much. Say hola to the Photorito, a protective lens wrap that looks like a burrito! This super-tough cover will protect even the meatiest of lenses from 24mm to 200mm. Toss it in your camera bag, backpack, or [...] |  |
DIY: Make a Scarf Camera Strap (It’s Chilly Out There!)
| Extra photos for bloggers: 1, 2, 3 What’s incredibly soft, keeps you warm, and spends its days around your neck? A) Your cat, Harold. B) A plush dolphin travel neck pillow. C) Solid gold bling. D) Your new favorite DIY camera strap. If you answered D, you win! Because that’s what this tutorial is all [...] |  |
