Tilt-shift photography

Tilt-shift miniature style photos are pictures of real-life scenes that are manipulated to look like model photographs. The process normally involves tilt-shift lenses but now you can convert your own photographs into Liliputian worlds with this link.

Time-lapse photography demystified

Dan Hanna spent 17 years worth of taking 2 photos a day as his head rotated in sync with the earth around the sun. Time-lapse photography today needs little more than patience, a webcam and a time-lapse movie application like Flix. If you’re already plotting your lifetime project, here’s a super instructable to get you started.

DIY: The classic string tripod

Every photographer I know has a bone to pick with poor light and shaky frames. Here's a much honed technique from instructables.com that puts together a very impressive tripod from pretty much nothing more than a string. Handy, unbelievably easy to make and fits into your jacket pocket.

Rick Sammon’s 5-minute quickie

Rick is a much awarded and traveled photographer. In this video, he attains the unattainable – a crash course to digital photography in five minutes flat. Though I don’t recommend clicking with your sunglasses on, Rick sure knows how to drive the point home without eating up your precious bandwidth.

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More of Rick Sammon’s tried and tested courses here.