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Tennis, anyone? With its magnificent rallying, split-stepping, and headbands, it may be the most photographable of sports. (Aside from full-contact checkers.) Our pals at Papernstitch found a super-cute way to turn a plain old Penn ball into a bright yellow photo stand. Now you can fill your priceless Agassi-autographed ball with pictures of the mulletted man himself. Or curry favor with the ref by slipping him a neon-yellow sphere with a few tasteful yet seductive self-portraits. We have it on good authority that this how the Queen displays all of her Wimbledon photos. Oh, Liz, you crafty creature! |
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Some things are just too colossal to fit in one photo: Easter Island heads. An extended family reunion. Conan’s pompadour. Don’t give in to the tyranny of the frame! Bust your subjects out of their borders with a technique we call “photospanning.” Photospans cross multiple frames: the Easter Island chin in one shot, the face in another, and a third shot of the brow sitting on top. With just a little planning-ahead, they’re easy to make (and: easy to simulate). After all, your photos have always been big! It’s just the picture frames that got small. |
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A great philosopher once told us, “first, you must first learn to focus without focusing.” Or maybe it was our optometrist. Whatever. It’s deep. That transcendental magic is at the heart of Freelensing, a photographic process that begins with the removal of your lens. Freelensers simply hold unattached lenses in front their camera’s exposed sensor, and delicately tilt it until focus emerges. Hand-manipulating a lens will reinvent your focal plane, producing amazing macro and tilt-shift effects that were previously only possible with special glass. And more importantly, it will reinvent your concept of the universe. Or at least, tilt it slightly. Photojojo’s Complete Guide to Freelensing
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This tutorial is not for the faint of heart. We’re about to tell you how to photograph a ghost and it’s going to be terrifying(ly simple). In just three little steps you can have a photo of a real live ghost that looks a lot like one of your real live friends. A photo so spooky it’ll send you running for mommy (to get her to pose for more ghosty photos). But wait, sneak over to our archives for more ghastly photo misadventures like our Halloween Photo Tips, How to Carve Photo Pumpkins AAAAND through Oct 31st, Free Secret Squirt gun Cameras w/ every PJ Store order! Photograph Ghosts in 3 Steps p.s. Thx again to ScanCafe for sponsoring Photojojo this week. Thought about having your old prints digitized? They’ll do 20 scans, free. |
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Three years ago, we set out on a mission: to inspire your digital photos to be more than mere megapixels. So we started a website, and sent out a newsletter. And then we sent out more newsletters. Then the Photojojo Shop was born (while we kept sending newsletters). And now … WE HAVE A BOOK! You know — paper, ink, a table of contents. The whole shebang. Complete with 192 full-color pages of our most popular photo projects (all souped up) plus tons of new ones, and some great ideas from the most talented folks we know. It’s been a year in the works, and we can. not. wait. for you to see it. Photojojo! The Book p.s. To celebrate our launch we’re giving away tonso stuff from the Photojojo Shop; Bottle Cap Tripods, Level Camera Cubes, Magnetic Photo Rope and ten copies of our book. All week long!
Just RT @photojojo … we’ll be picking winners until Friday. AND we started a Photojojo Book Group on Flickr for everyone to share their first cuddly book moments. Look! Below the jump! A sneak peek for you, darling reader: one of the projects from our super fantastic master work of literature (plus 3 more crafty tidbits). Enjoy. Inside the Book: CD Jewel Case Mural |
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Do you dream of faster lenses, larger apertures, and ice cream? We do too! Too bad, brand new lenses don’t drop into our laps everyday. Fortunately, photographer Ryan Brenizer has developed a way to get specular results from your thrifty fifty or a basic kit zoom lens. By stitching together multiple shots, Ryan makes impossibly shallow depths of field, possible. Follow a few easy steps and you too can take photos with the look of a faster more pricy lens. (And when you spend less on new lenses, there’s more money for sundaes!) A million thanks to Ryan for letting us feature a few of his photos. |
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Our photos were a crooked conundrum — it was sheer panoramic pandemonium. That is, until we found The Perfect Pano, a rotating tripod tool that clicks into place every 30 degrees so you can overlap your shots evenly. Plus, The Level Camera Cube, a triple axis bubble level that mounts to your hot shoe for straight shooting. Their powers combined will give you the bestest, all around, straight across, most perfect shots you could ask for in one go. The Perfect Pano The Level Camera Cube Never done a panorama? Don’t know how to start? You know what’s coming, don’t you… We’re going to teach you! We’ll tell you what panoramas are, how to shoot one, how to put it together, and where to find free software to help you. Just keep reading, bucko. Photojojo’s Guide to the Most Perfectest Panoramas |
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Writer’s block. People say that like it’s a bad thing, but we happen to like blocks. Lego blocks, glass blocks, Irina Blok… we’re big fans. That’s why we came up with this photo block puzzle. It’s a little like our Photo Blocks, but squarer and bigger and harder to solve, and with a bunch more photos. It’s a set of blocks we’d proudly display on our coffee table any day of the week. How to Make Your Own Photo Puzzle Blocks Photo credit: jeansman |
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Snape. Malfoy. Hogwarts. Horcrux. If none of those words make any sense to you, you’re not a Harry Potter fan. The rest of you know that in the Wizarding World, people in photographs don’t stand still. They move, wave at you, wander out of the frame for a cup of tea… In honor of the new Harry Potter movie (eeeeee! we can’t wait!) we’re teaching you how to make your own moving pictures. It’s so easy, even Muggles can do it! How to Make Moving Pictures a la Harry Potter p.s. We just snatched up the much anticipated Eye-Fi PRO Wireless Memory Card for the Photojojo Shop. Hooray for RAW uploads! |
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Long long ago, Black-and-White ruled the Earth. Frosty white highlights frolicked with rich black shadows in the Meadows of Grayscale, and it was good. Then came Digital, whose dingy whites and muddy grays nearly drove Black-and-White to extinction. But now, like wild-eyed scientists cloning a mammoth, we’ve found the best ways to convert digital color photos into the REAL honest-to-goodness-that-looks-like-Ansel-Adams-took-it Black-and-White. NOT the pale washwater grays and off-white whites you get with “Convert to grayscale”. And we’re going to show you how. Converting Digital Color Photos to Glorious Black-and-White |
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