Hacked Ikea kitchen timers shoot time lapses

The Ikea timer is called the Ordning
Use it to make a cheap ($5.99) and easy Ikea Time Lapse Panning Unit for your next photo shoot.

Here's an example:
Pan Left Portland


and another one:
Pan Left Lido Key


Here's a great video that shows you how to make your own (jump to 2 min 10 sec):
How to Make a Cheap and Easy Ikea Time Lapse Panning Unit


For more details go here.

As seen on the Ikea Hackers blog and the Getaway Moments blog.

#phonar: A Free and Open Undergrad Photography Course

#phonar, short for “Photography and Narrative”, is a free and open undergraduate photography course run by Jonathan Worth at Coventry University in the UK. Worth spent nearly 15 years as a successful commercial portrait photographer in New York before taking this part-time teaching position, and invites some pretty prominent photographers to guest lecture in the class. Participants have access to recorded lectures, assignments, and special discussions.

You can check out the material from last year’s class on the course website, or participate in this year’s class starting in October by signing up here. There’s also a second course in the Winter called #picbod. Yay for free online education!

Libya blast kills photojournalists Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros

'Restrepo' co-director Tim Hetherington and Getty photographer Chris Hondros are hit by a mortar strike in Misurata, Libya. Read more here