DIY Photography

Many years ago when I worked on the Triggertrap camera trigger we'd set up a "scream booth" at events, using the sound trigger. It was a great way of getting attention, and generating content that people want to share. https://www.diyphotography.net/how-build-scream-triggered-photobooth/

I don't think I agree with this -- I've spent some time doing amateur digital and film photography, and my experience has been that film photography is much more forgiving by default. You can do really excellent things with a modern digital camera, but a lot of phone cameras have short focal lengths[1] and create very harsh captures of peoples' skin, grease, features, &c. Edit: This is to say that photos might be more realistic now, which in turn tends to make them less flattering ;-) [1]: https://www.diyphotography.net/gif-explains-changing-focal-length-impa…

> much of it was rather insightful while brief Much of it was misinformed or plain wrong. The particulars has been extensively discussed in this thread. > The motivated spectator can then google details about your camera's firmware for the next time you travel to North Korea yourself. The photographer appears to use Nikon SLRs which I am familiar with (I have a Df and has been using Nikon for the past decade). A handful of old models had homebrew firmware patches but it was mostly for shooting video[0]. There has been no new releases since. Can somebody point me where to look? Googling turned up nothing like what's been described in the linked gallery. [0]http://www.diyphotography.net/hacked-nikon-firmware-allows-manual-cont…

There are custom firmwares for many DSLRs: http://www.diyphotography.net/the-ultimate-custom-firmware-for-any-cam… But the scenario you seem to lust for (a combination of high quality DSLR hardware and a competitive app market) will never manifest because the hardware is too fragmented. There never will be standard interfaces, and you won't get enough competition to develop the greatest possible camera app for a specific hardware model.

I saw this the other day and it was down. Now it's back up. Is this "legitimate"? The story ( http://www.diyphotography.net/download-adobe-cs2-for-free as best I can tell ) isn't clear.

Looks like the source the article is based around is https://www.diyphotography.net/develop-film-at-home-with-a-jager-bomb/… which itself is a write-up of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_Oja2mpYqg.

> Do you... A) take the shot from where you are and crop/zoom in post OR B) walk a block and get the shot composed correctly from the start? If you walk, the composition totally changes. If you like the composition where you are, but it's too small, walking that block will give you something worse. The steps are: 1. Get the composition right (walking around) 2. Zoom or crop if the subject is too small. 3. Do not walk closer - it messes up the composition. There's a whole other thread discussing this. Hint: For the type of photography I do, I almost always get a better composition by being farther and zooming in. You won't get those shots by getting nearer to the subject. See https://www.diyphotography.net/this-is-why-you-cant-zoom-with-your-fee… https://www.diyphotography.net/zooming-lens-feet-changes-relationship-…

Anamorphic lenses do exist; some are indeed very expensive, but there are "affordable" ones too (only slightly more expensive than regular lenses). https://www.diyphotography.net/the-smallest-full-frame-anamorphic-ever…

Here’s another project using a more affordable full frame kodak ccd with global shutter https://www.diyphotography.net/the-sitina-1-is-a-full-frame-open-sourc… https://gitlab.com/zephray/sitina1 https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=Ma9FrN5COIo Some people like ccd better than cmos for the color range.

It's about Fatima. The government was mocked for a "tone deaf" campaign to hire from a diverse workforce and re-skill in Cyber. So when a "senior" job was advertised in Cyber, the urge to mock brewed up as seen on social media. It is not new that government jobs bear modest salaries, nor that the inflated titles that are given to employees are not a fair reflection of the duties that they hold. https://www.dazeddigital.com/politics/article/50747/1/a-brief-explaine… https://www.diyphotography.net/photographer-speaks-up-after-her-photo-…

Rather than client side scanning, I'm surprised they have not implemented Meta's solution [1] ´ₛ [1] - https://www.diyphotography.net/meta-wants-teens-nudes-to-stop-them-fro…

Many amateur photographers who used to carry SLRs around have switched to smartphones and written blog posts about it https://www.diyphotography.net/why-i-dont-use-dslr-cameras-anymore/ https://www.dpreview.com/articles/4296660253/5-reasons-why-i-havent-us… https://photographylife.com/dslr-has-no-future

At that point I wonder when quadcopters or fixed-wing UAVs will be feasible to at least establish visual contact with the sender of an emergency signal and/or drop off a sat-phone for bidirectional contact - there have been model aircraft capable of crossing the Atlantic [1] after all, and modern quadcopters like the DJI Matrice have something like an hour of flight time and 80 km/h speed so these could carry emergency supplies as well, no matter the terrain. [1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAM_5 [2] https://www.diyphotography.net/djis-new-matrice-300-rtk-drone-offers-a…

46% market share. Largest chunk of the market. https://www.diyphotography.net/sony-dominated-the-smartphone-sensor-ma…

I don't know much about the topic, but I noticed this the other day: https://www.diyphotography.net/this-guy-liquid-cooled-his-canon-eos-r5…

I still think it’s rather interesting as an approach. In fact with that, the potential of creating a DIY ND filter out of welding-glass [1, 2] becomes a little more unnecessarily involved :D. [1] https://petapixel.com/2016/06/23/use-welders-glass-1-nd-filter-long-ex… [2] https://www.diyphotography.net/use-welding-glass-as-10-stops-nd-filter…

Additionally, some public areas prohibit photography of architecture because of copyright. https://www.diyphotography.net/10-famous-landmarks-youre-allowed-photo…

That wont work for long. Phone makers are already adding built in "beauty" filters that can't be turned off. [1] [1] https://www.diyphotography.net/iphone-xs-camera-forces-beauty-mode-by-…

Indeed. Similarly, a lot of the "shot on iPhone" (etc.) footage was shot on a iPhone... that was in a bespoke mount, using professional studio lighting-- usually continuous lighting since flash sync with a camera phone is difficult. Exempli gratia: https://petapixel.com/2017/06/30/truth-shot-iphone-style-ads/ For studio photography, the lighting is more important than the camera. I once brought a pro-grade DLSR, a $400 entry-level DSLR, and a final-gen film SLR to the same shoot, and created images with all three using the same lighting setup. The difference in results wasn't immediately obvious. Modern camera phones have good sensors, so if you drop one into an otherwise-professional studio setup, you'll get good results. cf. https://www.diyphotography.net/samsung-used-my-dslr-photo-to-fake-thei…

Ah man, I immediately thought of another recent case of a smartphone manufacturer faking their phone's camera shots[0] (turns out TFA links to it as well). Just a single instance of this kind of fraud is enough for me to write off a brand forever, frankly. If you're lying to my face before I even bought your product, who knows how much else you're lying about. Zero trust for companies like this. [0] https://www.diyphotography.net/huawei-passes-off-dslr-photos-as-smartp…

Actually with film it wasn't that straightforward: "In the early days of color film, the color balance of the film’s processing chemicals were made with the primary consumer market in mind–which, at the time, was predominately light skinned individuals. “For many decades, chemicals that would bring out various reddish, yellow, and brown tones were largely left out,” explains the video’s narrator." source: http://www.diyphotography.net/history-of-how-film-camera-tech-evolved-… The video has some pretty interesting details.

For anyone interested in improving their profile pic, this is a good article: http://www.diyphotography.net/take-professional-linkedin-profile-photo… Read all the way through, as he points out that it is not the equipment that matters, its the setup with the reflectors, which can easily be improvised...

There doesn't seem to be any more information available anywhere else. Just based on what I consider to be a vintage camera, I suspect someone fixated on the owner of the camera for other reasons first before interpreting and reporting the images and the actual camera itself as a bomb. The fact that the crew went with it instead of trying to discreetly observe what the person was fiddling with is annoying as well ... both from the perspective of the person unnecessarily detained and other people whose lives were disrupted. > Pictured left: The woman and her kids were seated across from her spouse when she noticed another passenger next to her husband watching videos and pictures of vintage cameras So, this person is sitting next to her husband, fiddling with a bomb, in her imagination, but her husband is completely unaware? Curious. And the flight crew goes along? Weird. Their behinds are covered since they have a "valid" excuse. Update: Here is similar take[2] published an hour before I was making my comment: > This incident raises so many questions for me. Firstly why didn’t the woman engage the man in conversation first, he may have been more than happy to show her how old cameras worked. Did the flight attendants even question the man and try to ascertain what the object was? According to Quartz airline personnel are trained to deal with such situations and make reasoned assessments when passengers report suspicious behaviour. > ... > Another baffling part of the…

> I once ordered shampoo sold my Amazon that was obviously fake, and then I searched around and realized Amazon has a program where they gather the products from different sellers and put it in one huge bin and call all of them sold by Amazon.com This is a common scam. Third party sellers will send a fake product to Amazon to be FBA (Fulfilled by Amazon). When someone buys this product from the seller on the product's webpage, the seller is hoping the buyer will actually receive a genuine Amazon product instead that happens to already be in the warehouse. The buyer will be happy and will not complain, so the seller receives their money. However that fake product is still sitting in the warehouse, and when some unlucky buyer receives the fake product, they'll demand a refund. Some unlucky third party seller will have to foot the bill for that refund. Youtuber "chaseontwowheels" ordered a $6000 camera Sold and Shipped by Amazon.com. He instead received a box of rocks. He got a refund from a suspicious Amazon and shipped him another camera. While filming a video about the incident, he opened the box and it was rocks again. He ended up buying the camera from B&H and finally got the legitimate product. https://www.diyphotography.net/buyer-orders-6000-camera-amazon-receive… I've run into a similar problem. I ordered an electric beard trimmer and the box looked new but there was hair inside so it was obviously used. There were a lot of recent reviews about…

Don't buy any IT equipment from Amazon. Better yet don't buy anything on Amazon. Counterfeit networking equipment: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/ceo-dozens-companies-and-entities-charg… Counterfeit memory cards: https://www.diyphotography.net/psa-fake-sandisk-memory-cards-are-every… FYI F3 aka Flight Flash Fraud is a good albeit slow program to verify memory: https://fight-flash-fraud.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ Counterfeit i9 processor: https://www.reddit.com/r/intel/comments/8vk94b/received_a_fake_i97960x… Counterfeit laptops: https://www.reddit.com/r/laptops/comments/lod5ha/dont_buy_laptops_from…