Archive for the “Photojojo” Category

Extra photos for bloggers: 1, 2, 3 We love hanging out with our friends, and we’ve had a great summer full of lunches in the park, guests from around the globe, and days off at the beach. With summer winding down, we have a lot less beach days in our future, and no out-of-town guests [...]

Extra photos for bloggers: 1, 2, 3 Guess what! Size does matter. We had it all wrong with “bigger is better,” though. We took a tip from our favorite camera-centric country Japan, where you’ll find the smallest yet greatest lil’ cameras. Our new mantra? “Go small or not at all!” Presenting, direct from Japan, The [...]

Extra photos for bloggers: 1, 2, 3 Last week when Jen of team Photojojo went to New York for a few days, we wanted her to know how much she was missed. We thought long and hard about how we could prank her upon her return… …Fake parking tickets on her car? …Stapler in a [...]

Extra photos for bloggers: 1, 2, 3 Movie rentals that suddenly appear in your mailbox and cheese pizzas that show up at your door with the click of a mouse…could there be anything more magical? Yup! It’s Fuji’s Instax 210 Wide Format Instant Camera, bringing instant photography back one big, beautiful print at a time. [...]

Relationships, fragile packages, our feet. Long distance is hard on all of ‘em. Life would be grander if we could just teleport. Well now we can, in a way! Boltron (aka Nate Bolt), in collaboration with Paul Octavius, Steph Goralnick, and Laura Miner, created The Shutter Exchange. It’s a simple yet ingenious method of photographing [...]

Extra photos for bloggers: 1, 2, 3 Recently we asked friends of our Tumblr page what they’d most like to see covered in our next tutorial. The votes are in. The absentee ballots have been counted. The results are clear: You want to learn how to make your photos look vintage! So, we got together [...]

Extra photos for bloggers: 1, 2, 3 Camera-phones. They’re a wonder unto themselves. We never fail to whip ours out for in-the-moment shots, and our Facebook mobile album is three times bigger than any other. So, when we found these nifty fisheye and combination wide-angle/macro camera phone lenses, we were psyched to see our phone [...]

And now for a non-dictionary of photo terms: Tilt-shift: not the crazy-legged move we bust on the dance floor. Selective focus: not the clever strategy used against parents. Maybe we’re better off referencing our pal Bhautik’s incredible guide to tilt-shift and DIY lenses! It’ll teach you all sorts about tilt-shift, like – What the heck [...]

Extra photos for bloggers: 1, 2, 3 Dear friend, Your infatuation with color is bordering on obsession. Your light-paintings are filled with EVERY color of the rainbow, and your double-exposures are insane collages of color. We know your secret. We’ve seen the crinkly mess of color-gels at the bottom of your bag! Today is the [...]

Extra photos for bloggers: 1, 2, 3 Did you know that history’s first photographic images were made without a camera? It’s true! Way back in the 1830s, William Fox Talbot discovered he could place objects on photo-sensitive paper to make images called “photograms.” We’re going to show you how to make them with instant film, [...]