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What’s a good party without a photo booth?
Nineteen-year-old Alexander Morris, from County Antrim, Northern Ireland, designed a makeshift photo machine inspired by Instagram. The get-up is built entirely out of medium density fiberboard and resembles the app’s iconic logo — down to a filtered I.
Morris, a freelance photographer, posted the entire 18-step process to Instructablesover the weekend.
“I finished school in June last year, where I was the photographer for my [class] prom,” he told Mashable. “The organizers asked me to come back and photograph this year’s event.”
After a brainstorming session, he thought up the idea of making the booth.
The contraption uses a Nikon d3200 camera, an entry-level 24 megapixel DSLR, two Nikon sb900 flashguns and a standard TV. One of the steps even involves writing code for an Arduino micro-controller that activates the camera’s shutter and flash guns — a trick Morris picked up in school. In total, the project took him around 11 weeks to complete.
The booth was well-received at the event, he said, which took place at the beginning of March. As for future uses? “There are a few other things I need to tweak before I use the booth again,” he said. “But I will definitely be using it for all future events of the nature.”
Watch the video above to learn more. You can read through Morris’ step-by-step instructions here.
Many of us love fantasy and seeing photos that cannot be or aren’t real, as they tell us that we can be more than this. As many of us know, such photos are called surreal, and now in this article I am going to present some awesome surreal photo manipulations that you might not have seen before.
So, don’t wait and start scrolling down to see some wonderful and astonishing photos that might leave you wondering why these things cannot be true.
Flickr released an update to its iOS app on Saturday, adding hashtag support to the photo-sharing service’s mobile platform.
While Flickr has long used a tagging system to categorize pictures on the web, the term “tags” has been renamed to follow the ever-popular trend of hashtags. The app also introduced #FlickrFriday, where adding the hashtag let the user instantly participate in Flickr’s weekly photo challenge.
Much like Instagram, clicking a hashtag will take you to search results of relevant tagged photos. The addition is the latest in a series of changes after the company’sintegration with Twitter at the end of 2012. Other updates similar to Instagram included usernames using the @ symbol and retro-style filters.
Existing tags from Flickr’s website don’t translate into clickable hashtags on the free app, and the website itself doesn’t implement them.
The new addition follows last week’s news of Facebook reportedly bringing hashtags to the social network.
What do you think of Flickr joining the hashtag bandwagon? Let us know in the comments.
The memories of bullying during childhood can haunt you forever — which is why spoken word poet Shane Koyczan is creating a message through a poem and animated video that will stick with you from this day onward.
Koyczan’s video, entitled “To This Day,” details the scary and trying moments from his own childhood that shaped his life.
The video is haunting and beautiful, powerful and startling, sad and relatable. And, above all, the video and poetry will reshape your views on name calling, harassment and pain, encouraging you to confront and end the cycle of hatred and bullying kids face.
“My experiences with violence in schools still echo throughout my life but standing to face the problem has helped me in immeasurable ways,” Koyczan writes on the “To This Day” website.
Ever wanted to browse your full Instagram feed — that is, the latest stuff in real time from everyone you’re following on the photo service — without having to reach for your smartphone? Ever wished it was all just available at Instagram.com? You finally got your wish.
Instagram announced Tuesday in a blog post that Instagram.com would no longer be a placeholder front page. If you’re logged into the service online, you will see your full feed just as you would on a mobile device.
“Simply put,” writes Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom, “we’ve brought a simple, powerful, and beautiful Instagram browsing experience to the web.” Here’s how it works:
Your Instagram Feed on the web functions much like it does on your mobile phone. You can browse through the latest photos of people whom you follow with updates as people post new photos. Like photos by double clicking on them or pressing the like button. Or, engage in a conversation around a photo with inline commenting. Browse through pages of the most recent images to keep up on what’s happening with the people you follow in realtime. And shrink your browser down to a single column for your feed to look more like your mobile feed.
You could previously browse your own pictures at a specific URL — instagram.com/futurechris, for example — but this is the first time a real-time feed of the mostly mobile service has been made available on a browser.
While Photoshop, Fireworks, and Illustrator may be the most feature-rich and popular options for web and graphic designers, sometimes there may be situations where a lighter option would be preferred. Opening Photoshop for very simple image edits isn’t always the most efficient option. I have searched and reviewed these 5 image editors that are easily available for download. These software are light, fast, really easy to use, and have all the necessary image editing tools required for simple jobs.
Now I do not disagree that Photoshop, Illustrator, and Fireworks are the life blood of the industry. But having said that, all these software are also complicated for some users, strains the CPU, have really large sizes, and most importantly carry a price tag. So if you are a small time user who wants to perform relatively simple edits to images, you would certainly hesitate in shelling out for such software. And that’s quite understandable.
After all, why would someone pay hundreds of dollars for Photoshop if he/she just has to change the color contrasts or lighting of an image?
Also the number of available free image editing software is also quite large. So large that it may confuse you beyond measure. In an effort to work around this confusion we present yo 5 free image editing software that are light, fast, easy to use, and gets the job done.
The fall out from Instagram’s changes to its terms of sercvice at the end of last year has proved far more calamitous for the Facebook-owned Photo app than first imagined. Instagram appears to have lost half of its active users in a month, according to new data.
The numbers of active users seem to have fallen from 40 million to 17 million, according to App traffic monitoring firm AppStats. That seems very high and I wonder if some of these people will come back.
Instagram remains very appealing in terms of the kind of people who are on it and how it is also starting to acquire a news element to it as we saw recently with this story: “How news can break on Instagram as John Terry reveals Lampard is leaving Chelsea”.
It does also say that Instagram is continuing to acquire new users as well, as people acquire the right kind of smartphone (you still can’t get Instagram on a Blackberry), but the fallout shows how risky it can be for social media firms to tinker with copyright. People really do care about this kind of stuff and particularly when the copyright is their own. With pictures, and social media we personally create, that is a huge issue and needs to be handled very carefully.
Picking the perfect filter for your beloved Instagrams can be laborious. Is Lo-Fi too dark? Is Earlybird too hipster?
We’ll save you the trouble with these nine fake filters no one should ever, ever use.
Got more fun filter ideas? Share them in the comments.
“A Picture is worth a thousand words”. You must have heard this saying many times, and I do believe the saying is very true. A picture can express so much in terms of creativity and inspiration and many other things.
Not all pictures are very expressive or inspiring, and it takes a lot of hard work to find such pictures and graphics. But, to make your work easy and to save your time, here’s a compiled list of 20 great, creative and inspiring photo manipulations that you should see.
