I thought that I can’t think of a better Halloween costume for a photographer than a huge camera. But Yohei Shimada took it to a higher level: his Halloween costume is a working Canon DSLR that takes actual photos. Shimada goes by name @cameraaman on Twitter, where he shared a couple of photo of his costume, as well as the photos he took with it. He was actually the human-sized camera for last year’s Halloween, but the short video where he shows it off has only recently got wildly popular on Reddit....

When I first discovered Studio 188, it was love at first sight. Well, on my side at least. These guys recreate famous movies and TV shows using nothing but household items and their limitless imagination. Since Squid Game has been all the rage lately, it’s no wonder that they decided to recreate that, too. And just as always: they nailed it! Once again, they used food, drink, and props from around the house and turned them into a brilliant and hilarious low-budget version of the famous Korean series....

If there is one show where the big guns spend a ton of money on it is probably Photokina. We went to the showgrounds a day earlier so we can share how the thing looks from the inside. All the companies put up some huge booths. And size does matter, but some have more interesting displays than others. Here are a few of the big booths we shot for you....

The latest iPhone operating system, iOS 16, comes with a new lock screen feature. It’s a sort of layered overlay wallpaper that cuts out your subject and sticks it on top of the clock. It’s a neat visual effect – and one that’s been commonly used on magazine covers over the years – but with the iPhone, there is a trick to creating the images in order to make them work in this way....

When Hasselblad recently announced their new H6D 50MP and 100MP cameras, one of the lucky photographers they had to help them shoot promotional images for the launch campaign and to test out the H6D’s capabilities was Karl Taylor. While the results of this shoot have spread across the world over the last couple of weeks, Karl now presents us with a behind the scenes look into how the images were created....

The histogram is based around a fairly simple principle, but one that many still struggle to get to grips with. Put simply, it’s a graph showing the relative proportion of brightness levels throughout your image. In the latest video from Rocket Jump Film School, cinematographer Jon Salmon talks us through exactly what the histogram is and how to interpret it effectively to get the best out of your camera....

Admit it, no matter how old you are, LEGO always brings out the inner kid in you. And this is why you’ll love this drone accessory. It’s simple, lightweight and lets you firmly attach your favorite LEGO figurine onto your drone. Perfect, I know! PGYTECH LEGO Toy Adapter is made for Tello drones and it costs $5.90. You simply put it on top of the drone, it clicks and stays in place....

Teenage years are a tricky period made almost entirely of rebellious acts and bad decisions. Some of the latter could include taking nude photos and sharing them with the wrong people. But Tone Mobile has a potential solution to this. The Japanese company has launched Tone e20, a cheap phone that uses AI to recognize nudes. If your kid snaps an inappropriate selfie, the phone will recognize it and automatically delete it....

Iranian photographer Alireza Rostami has come up with some really cool DIY projects so far. This time, he’s made a prototype of a talking camera. As usual, he used various scrap parts, this time pairing them with talking mechanisms of old dolls. Even though it’s a pretty basic prototype – could a smart, talking camera be our future? We talked with Alireza a bit about his project, the inspiration behind it, as well as his hopes for the future of the talking camera....

Sometimes we get an idea for a shoot that needs just the right location to do it justice. Sure, you could try to shoot it just about anywhere, but you don’t get what you really want. For Singapore based photographer, Mervyn Lim and his Nier: Automata themed shoot, he needed not just abandoned buildings. He needed abandoned buildings that the wilderness had begun to reclaim. And, boy, did he find them....

The sky above us hides so much beauty we can’t see with the naked eye. But even a consumer telescope reveals a whole new perspective. Josh Rabener recently got one, and he managed to capture Saturn and its recognizable rings. What’s particularly interesting is that he did it with his smartphone. Josh got a telescope three months ago and started observing the skies. On 23 April, he captured this photo of Saturn:...

We’ve seen all kinds of Lego stuff here on DIYP: cameras and lenses, TV show recreations, quarantine projects… YouTuber Brick Experiment Channel has created a pretty wild camera rig. It spins so fast that the footage looks as if someone’s opening a portal to another dimension. The YouTuber created this mini rig and added an action camera on one side, and a Lego man named Benny on the other. He made the rig spin and increased the speed until the figurine (or a part of it) would come off....

We featured Andrew McCarthy and his stunning photos on DIYP before. And the moment I discovered his work, I became a fan. Andrew’s photos enrich make my Instagram feed, and this one just stopped me in my tracks. Andrew combined astrophotography and light painting and created a unique artwork I immediately wanted to know more about. He kindly shared the image with DIYP, along with some information on how he created it....

There are plenty of epic astrophotos that were taken from Earth. Sometimes even from a photographer’s backyard. Astronomer Jean-Luc Dauvergne visited Pic du Midi observatory in the French Pyrenees and took some photos of Mars. As a result, he created “the best global map of Mars” shot from the surface of our planet. Pic du Midi Observatory has four telescopes. The construction of the observatory began way back in 1878, but due to financial difficulties, it wasn’t finished before 1908....

Surfing has become wildly popular since it started to see a major revival in the 1960s. Along with the sport, came photographers. Things have come a long way since the days of photographers like LeRoy Grannis. But, we get to a point where styles and ideas become recycled. It happens with most genres of photography, though. Once it becomes saturated, it’s often difficult to innovate. Some photographers, however, want to push the boundaries and try something genuinely new....

It’s been a while since vertical videos became a thing. I know, I know, you may still not like them, but it looks like even some famous filmmakers are embracing this format. The director of Oscar-winning La La Land and Whiplash Damien Chazelle has teamed up with Apple to create this unusual project. The video they recently launched reimagines what classic movie genres would look like if they were shot vertically....

As somebody who speaks to camera now and again, having a script is great. But, I still mess up lines and may end up shooting the same few sentences half a dozen times each. That’s a lot of wasted time, and more footage than I want to have to sift through in post. So, teleprompters are amazing, but they can also be expensive ranging from a few hundred dollars to over $10K....

On Wednesday night, two men from Garland, Texas were shot to death after an attempt to recover a stolen camera. 26-year-old Michael Ryan Love scheduled a meeting after seeing a camera on OfferUp. He believed it was the camera that had been stolen from him, and he wanted to recover it from the seller, which ended in a tragedy. As WFAA 8 reports, Love arranged a meeting with the seller at a house that turned out to be vacant....

The military of defence in Ukraine has recently released a video that shows a Ukrainian soldier dismantling a Russian military surveillance drone. Standard stuff perhaps, but what is interesting is that the camera that is being used inside is a good old low-end Canon DSLR. The video shows a soldier sitting next to what it says is a Russian Orlan-10 unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that had crashed in Ukraine, and comments on how surprisingly low-tech the whole device is....

Panasonic has released a new roadmap for their Lumix S L Mount lenses. It shows six new lenses coming in 2021 (updating the info on lenses on the previous roadmap) and one of them – the 100mm f/2.8 macro – appears to have actually been removed from the list entirely since the previous roadmap. The new roadmap mentions three specific prime lens focal lengths and apertures, along with three zoom lenses....