If you’re not familiar with variable neutral density
filters, they’re essentially adjustable filters that change the amount of light
allowed into your camera lens. Since
it’s limiting the light to the lens, you can open your aperture for a shallow
depth of field or prolong your exposure time for a long motion blur.
These filters can be
incredibly cool, but at [...]
This is a trick that goes way back to the early days of
photography and video. If you’re looking
for a nice soft focus around the edges of your shot, Vaseline is a simple way
to do it.
You’ll commonly hear the practice referred to as putting
Vaseline on the lens, but you really don’t want to go around smearing [...]
“In December of 1975, after a year of piecing together
a bunch of new technology in a back lab at the Elmgrove Plant in Rochester, we
were ready to try it,” writes inventor Steve Sasson. The “it” that he’s referring to is
the world’s first digital camera.
It’s far from compact and doesn’t even come close to being
sleek looking, [...]