Apr 3rd 2012Los Angeles-based photographer Ian Ruhter creates amazing photographs using a van that he turned into a gigantic camera. He uses the collodion process (AKA wet plate photography) to turn large sheets of metal into photographs, and spends upwards of $500 making each giant one-of-a-kind print.
Here’s Ruhter is with a 36×24-inch wet plate photograph he shot in Mammoth Lakes, CA. It took him two years of hard work to make:
You can check out a gallery of Ruhter’s photographs here.
Artists Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs create homemade cameras out of bizarre objects such as turtle shells and large stones. The large format camera above was crafted out of a stack of photography books. Their experiments are documented in a book titled As Long As It Photographs It Must Be a Camera. You can find [...][IMG]http://media.newschoolers.com/uploads/images/17/00/45/04/25/450425.jpeg[/IMG]
If you?re like me, you have some presets that you?ve created in Lightroom that you would like to use in Adobe Camera Raw. Unfortunately the format of the preset files in each program is different so you can’t just install a Lightroom preset in ACR. However you can make an ACR preset from a file [...]Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips. Check out our more Photography Tips at Photography Tips for Beginners, Portrait Photography Tips and Wedding Photography Tips. Use Lightroom Presets in Adobe Camera RAW[IMG]http://media.newschoolers.com/uploads/images/17/00/42/69/87/426987.jpeg[/IMG]
by Lynford Morton from www.photocoachpro.com. If you want to make the evolution from pointing and shooting to creating art, one of the things you must do is master your camera. I’m talking the kind of mastery where you can pick up your camera in most situations and begin firing quickly without too much fiddling around. [...]Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips. Check out our more Photography Tips at Photography Tips for Beginners, Portrait Photography Tips and Wedding Photography Tips. 8 Things Every Camera Owner Should Know About Their Camera[IMG]http://media.newschoolers.com/uploads/images/17/00/43/43/52/434352.jpeg[/IMG]
Perhaps the biggest challenge I hear many of our readers talking about when it comes to their photography is that they struggle to find time to practice their photography. The real problem though is that so many of us don’t have our camera with us when the photographic opportunities present. Instead they sit at home [...]Post originally from: Digital Photography Tips. Check out our more Photography Tips at Photography Tips for Beginners, Portrait Photography Tips and Wedding Photography Tips. Do You Wear a Camera?[IMG]http://media.newschoolers.com/uploads/images/17/00/45/76/06/457606.jpeg[/IMG]
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