Photography Projects

Photojojo!: Insanely Great Photo Projects and DIY Ideas

by: Amit Gupta, Kelly Jensen

Amazon Price: $14.95 (as of 01/08/2010)

A photo, an idea, and simple crafting skills are all you need to transform your pictures into useful, fun, giftable art. With clear DIY instructions, Photojojo! by Amit Gupta and Kelly Jensen shows you how to turn your forgotten photos into ingenious photo projects.

Do you have lots of pics of friends and family you want to show off? Make a sleek, stylish photo display rail so you can change them up at a moment's notice. Need something to play with? Make photo slider puzzles, Rubik's cubes, and temporary tattoos. Or spruce up your pad with a photo chandelier or a giant wall mural you can print at home! All the projects use basic materials and are easy enough to whip up in an afternoon.

Once you're armed with what you can do with all your images, check out Photojojo's inspiring ideas to get you shooting photographs more creatively. Investigate the world from a canine perspective with the amazing doggie cam, or grab your friends and head out on a photo safari. Make a sneaky hidden jacket camera and turn string, a washer, and a screw into a monopod that fits in your pocket, MacGyver-style. Learn how to motivate yourself to take a photo every day with project 365, or get the little ones involved with Photojojo's head-spinning photography method: because you + kid + centrifugal force = awesome. Yep, photography just became a whole lot more fun.

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50 Photo Projects: Creative Ideas to Kick-Start Your Photography

by: Lee Frost

Amazon Price: (as of 01/08/2010)

This is a stunning collection of 50 new, inspirational photo projects designed to get the creative juices flowing freely from renowned photographer and author Lee Frost. Photographers of all abilities are constantly looking for fresh ideas and new ways to express themselves with both traditional and digital photography. Frost provides a variety of exciting projects - from creating an online photoblog to printing images on to canvas - focusing on exploring ideas and concepts, rather than specific techniques. Examples from Frost's own photography demonstrate the breadth and scope of end products that can be achieved with a camera, and easy-to-follow advice shows how readers can translate the ideas to their own projects. "50 Photo Projects" is guaranteed to inject some fresh excitement into the creative processes involved in this guide to photography.