Sunday, July 25, 2010

HowTo: Build Your Own Camera Lenses

HowTo: Build Your Own Camera Lenses


HowTo: Build Your Own Camera Lenses

Posted: 25 Jul 2010 09:00 AM PDT

HowTo: Build Your Own Camera Lenses The prerogative of most fancy, pricey lenses nowadays is ultimate sharpness. However, if you're partial to that soft, out of focus look, you can make your own lenses to achieve this type of effect.

DIY Photography posts an in depth guide to making your own lenses (Part 1) and then controlling the lens for varying degrees of sharpness (Part 2).

Sample images below.

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A Manicure That Will Make You Bleed

Posted: 25 Jul 2010 06:00 AM PDT

A Manicure That Will Make You Bleed Nylon Magazine recreates world renown makeup artist Topolino's dangerous thorn manicure. (Topolino was a wiz who has worked with the likes of Alexander McQueen, among other fashion stars).

Faran Krentcil guides us:

Gather your thorns.

"Take three roses and slice off their thorns with gardening shears. Be very careful, or you will bleed."

Paint each thorn.

"Paint each thorn a blood red, or wha ...more

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Bicycle-Riding Robot Puts Pedals to the Metal

Posted: 25 Jul 2010 03:00 AM PDT

Bicycle-Riding Robot Puts Pedals to the Metal Robots have a long-standing obession with tandem bikes. The first song ever sung by a computer? "Daisy Bell." If you don't recognize the title, you might nevertheless recognize the song's famous refrain: "But you'd look sweet/Upon the seat/Of a bicyle built for two." That was 1961. Fast forward nearly forty years and robots aren't merely singing about bicycles built for two, they're riding them. T ...more

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