A really nice film by Theo Jemison of Kiel Johnson making a giant twin lens reflex camera from cardboard hot glue and tape.
Wast Water with an iPhone
Wast Water, The Lake District, Cumbria
Just got back from a week in the Lake District and was able to give the camera on my iPhone a good work out as it’s the only camera I took. I particularly like the Pano App by Debarcle Software which I used a lot, including making the picture on this post. It’s all done in camera and if I’d had any signal at this location I could have blogged this whilst looking over the lake. On a slightly different note, the iPhone is by far now the most popular camera phone on the photo sharing site Flickr and has just passed the Canon Digital Rebel as Flickr’s most popular camera.
The Lakes were stunning, as always when the weather is good, but I also liked the muted grey tones you get when the clouds roll in over the hills and absorb much of the light and colour. Wast Water is a particularly great place to visit if you want scenery but it requires a little effort to get to. There’s a good National Trust campsite in Wastdale which I do recommend.
Even though I didn’t take any camera kit, just the phone which was liberating, most of the photos were taken about 5 minutes walk from my tent.
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How to photograph a tree!
Michael Nichols rigs up over £20k of camera kit to two bike wheels in preparation of dropping it from the top of a Giant Redwood tree.
Doesn’t sound the most exciting project in the world but stick with me, it gets better. The tree in question is a Giant Redwood (Sequoiadendron Giganteum) and the photographer Michael Nichols, a National Geographic photographer, took a year to plan it and three weeks to rig up the kit on a dolly. The result was 84 merged images and one big photoshop file. See the video of just how he did it below. What do you do with it then? Well, National Geographic have printed it as a poster and feature on Super Trees and it’s available in their October issue.
For those interested in camera kit; he’s strapped three Canon 1Ds MkIII, three Canon 35mm f1.4 lenses, six Pocket Wizards and other assorted gubbins to the dolly.