Tips and Tricks! Here are the ones you absolutely must read, so we've selected them for you. The main magazine Tipster Section awaits you for more how-to tipster fun.
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★ US CitySlicker Nicolas: This Isn’t Flying, It’s Falling with Style (A Guide to Levitation Photography)
With every new roll I put into my camera, I always try to do at least one levitation shot. For the past few months, after many trials and errors, I’ve picked up a few tips and tricks for taking jumping pictures so you guys can do it yourself!
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★ Creative Corner: Film Flash Drive
Need a place to store your beloved, scanned lomographs? Here's a creative way to spice up your memory drive with some analogue love! Read more about how to make your own after the jump.
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★ City Slicker jeabzz DIY : A Lomographic Anthem
I’ve always liked the click of a shutter, the buzz of a flash and all the other little sounds our analog cameras produce. So I decided to make a little song with them!
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★ How to Find the Stars
The heavens can be as beautiful as you can imagine if the night sky is clear of clouds and you can see those twinkling stars above you. Some of us are blessed with the talent to identify the big dipper and orion's belt within seconds, but some of us don't even notice any patterns, even with the help of a telescope! So here's a short how to read the night sky for those curious ones!
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★ Craft Crazy: 4 DIY Splitzer Tipsters for You to Try
Are you in the mood to try something crafty and creative? Why don't you try your hands on some interesting DIY projects, like making your very own splitzers to slice and dice your snapshots with!
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★ Instax Mini 7s - Viewfinder Accuracy Issue
I wrote a review about aperture settings of the Fujifilm Instax Mini 7s recently. So now, what issues will you be facing while using Instax Mini 7s? So far, I found that the main issue for me is the viewfinder accuracy problem. I can't get the exact image as what I see through the viewfinder.
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★ Make a DIY Film Reminder for Your 35mm Cameras!
There are times when I use cameras that have no slots for the tabs of film boxes, and thus, I often forget which film I'm shooting with (or if the camera is loaded, even). So, to remedy this problem, I thought of making my own film reminder! Learn how to make your own in this quick and easy tipster!
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★ Craft Crazy: 5 Nifty DIY Tipsters for You to Try
Are you in the mood to try something crafty and creative? Why don't you try your hands on some interesting DIY projects, whether for something to jazz up your camera, make your photos more interesting, or simply do more with the materials around you!
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★ Craft Crazy: Dress Up Your Camera!
It can often be difficult to protect your camera from being scratched or damaged while it's in a bag or hanging around your wrist, so here's a simple and cute way to give your camera a bit of protection. It's a fun project to do with any fabric that you may have.
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★ DIY Camera Case for the Diana Mini
Right now I'm just in craft fever making camera bags. As always, I'm afraid for my beauties in my big pockets, that's perfectly. This time it's about a bag for the Diana Mini.
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★ Photographing Animals is Hard to Resist
I know everyone has a soft spots for the furrier species, and there's something about taking pictures of them that's so dang hard not to do. This is a tipster telling you how I go about trying to capture them and my favorite places to go to see them.
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★ Dazzling Doubles: Is the Splitzer Cheating?
There are some truly stunning double exposures showcased within the Lomography community, but I have always been too nervous to double up my pictures so boldly! However, accidental doubles always make me laugh, and sometimes make for great photos. Since I started experimenting with the Splitzer, a whole new realm of possibility has been revealed!
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★ A Roaring Case for My Diana Mini Leopard!
With its pretty pink paint and sassy spotted skin, it would be a shame to cover up the Diana Mini Leopard. A style statement on its own, it gets lots of looks when I'm shooting! But where to keep the fashionable camera's functional accessories? Something already in your closet could be perfect for Diana Mini extras!
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★ DIY Photography: Low Profile, Low Cost Backdrop Wall Mount
This DIY tutorial is pretty trivial so if you have a seamless backdrop mount already feel free to skip forward, if not here is a way to build such a mount for as little as $5. (Actually, the mount by itself is about $2, the other three are for some extras).
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★ Dazzling Otherworldly Doubles with Your Camera
Take double exposure to a whole new level and create new worlds beyond your imagination. With a little bit of planning and creativity, magic can happen. Here’s my how-to guide.
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★ Crafty Tipster: How to Make Galaxy Print Frames for Your Lomographs
I'm always looking for fun ways to display my precious photos, and this is a simple tipster that gives a great space effect with materials you probably already own!
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★ The Shooting Gallery: Tips for Great Carnival Shots
Step right up and see all of the tips and tricks you need to capture the grand prize: awesome carnival shots!
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★ Color into Black and White: A Different X-Pro
A mistake at the developers leads to a different type of X-Pro. Read about this happy accident after the jump!
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★ Back To Basics: Cross Processing
Often intimidating to new Lomographers, Adam shares his experience with cross-processing slide film.
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★ How to Fix Sloppy Redscale Scans from a Minilab with GIMP
We all shoot our films, some of us also process and scan it, but I prefer the convenience of the commercial labs for the purpose. Guess my surprise when I got totally different scans from the same roll! This GIMP tutorial covers the basic technique that I used to rectify the problem on one of my first home-made Redscale rolls. Although a digital computer and a software program is used, I do not consider that a manipulation, but rather "fixing" an error that has been made by another computer program elsewhere. We are going to analyze the histogram and based on some basic knowledge about film and exposure, we are going to get the redscale film to look like it was originally intended.