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Polaroid PoGo

by LeVoltz on 25. Sep, 2009 in Gadgets

Polaroid photography has always caught my eye. After dabbling on Lomography and pin-hole camera I was looking forward to play around with Polaroid. But unfortunately Polaroid killed the Polaroid photography scene, by stopping the production of the special film roll.

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Student's Budget Pro Camera Gear

by LeVoltz on 14. Jul, 2009 in Gadgets

My very first DSLR camera was the Canon 20D. I received the camera from my parents as a college graduation present. They took me to the camera store where the three of us expected to purchase the 20D for $1600, but we found it on sale for $1300. [...]

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Build Your Own Pseudo-FigRig.

by LeVoltz on 16. Jun, 2008 in How-To

The Fig Rig is nice accessory for budding short film makers. The Rig is designed to provide stability while using a handheld camera. If you’ve seen the continuous 90 minute takes in Figgis’s Timecode you know what prompted him to come up with this contraption. The Rig is pretty costly around $300-$400. But DIVXUSER has [...]

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Panographies

by LeVoltz on 24. Nov, 2007 in How-To

Photojojo has a brilliant tutorial on how to make your very own panographies by using Adobe photoshop or other such photo editors. The idea is simple: Similar to the previously mentioned Hockneyizer, instead of the software clipping your images into smaller segments, here you take pictures of smaller segments and crudely arrange them out using [...]

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111 free plugins for Photoshop

by LeVoltz on 28. Oct, 2006 in Downloads

The Plugin site has got a fabulous collection of free Photoshop add-ons and plugins. Many of them are really useful and make life far more convenient especially when you are a designer from scratch kinda guy or a guy who just wants to tweak your photographs.
It lists plugins for:
Image Effects (37), Photo Enhancement [...]

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Yahoo Time Capsule

by LeVoltz on 18. Oct, 2006 in Extras

Yahoo time capsule is a nice concept to preserve our time and place… in the virtual world of course. Most of us would have seen period films. A film say Amadeus revolving around the 18th century and a film revolving in the 15th century both have casts wearing similar costumes, speaking similar language and using [...]

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Nokia Eye on Fashion

by LeVoltz on 01. Sep, 2006 in Extras

After the grand success of the MFM awards, Nokia are now back , teaming up with Wills Lifestyle roping in the fashion photographers by celebrating the India Fashion Week.
“Keep an eye out for fashion and capture it on your Nokia camera phone. From clothes to accessories, tattooes and personal style statements. Click anything you think [...]

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How to build a flash trigger

by LeVoltz on 29. Aug, 2006 in How-To

For all you Photography and Electronics enthusiasts – Check out this great tutorial on how to build your very own Camera Flash Trigger
http://swannman.wordpress.com/2006/08/24/howto-build-a-flash-trigger/

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Hockneyizer

by LeVoltz on 23. Jun, 2006 in Graphics

Hockneyizer is a nice little tool to convert a photo into a collage of smaller photos giving it a stylish effect.

Hockneyizer: Create a simulated collage from a single photograph
Create a unique "collage" from a single photograph. Choose one of two styles: a "joiner" style image without frames or an image created from simulated Polaroids. [...]

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MFM Awards 2006

by LeVoltz on 08. Jun, 2006 in Graphics

Discovery networks Asia and Nokia come together to provide initiative to new filmmakers. The MobileFilmMakers(MFM) Awards is in its second cycle around after the first edition came to its successful conclusion in December 2005 with Janice Yu emerging as the grand prize winner. The MFM initiative, started in 2005 aimed at empowering cell phone users [...]

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