The Mos Espa set→

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Duncan Davidson shooting a Star Wars set that I would love to see: 

After spending two nights at an outpost near the Algerian border on our madcap trip across Tunisia, we paid a visit to one of the Star Wars sets that still stands out in the desert.

For the non-Star Wars nerds out there, Mos Espa was the Tatooine city featured in Star Wars Episode 1 which held the awesome podrace sequence. This begs the question: if you lived in and around the set in Tunisia, wouldn't you want to live inside of this?

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The coolest $35 project is this $35 DIY SLR→

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Lomography sells a $35 kit (Konstruktor) that has everything you need to build an SLR. A time-lapsed video has the guy on the site piecing it together relatively quickly, but it's recommended to set aside a couple of hours. I ordered one and can't wait to build it and with that, take some of the only film photos I have ever shot.

Side note: The $35 kit doesn't come with any film! However, there's a starter pack you can buy that has the camera and some film which is what I purchased.

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Samurai with mustaches at the MFA

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Samurai with mustaches at the MFA

The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston has been advertising a collection of everything samurai for what feels like months all over the city, so I did what every American does when subjected to intense amounts of marketing: I gave in entirely. 

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A lot of words on bokeh→

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Ming Thein: 

Whilst some photographers – usually pure portraitists and rank amateurs – go for this look, the problem is that you’re throwing away one very important tool in your photographic arsenal, and severely compromising another. Without secondary subjects and background, there’s no context to your image – the background could be a roll of fencing wire, or the Eiffel Tower. 

Starting off, I was very guilty of this, but as I became a better photographer bokeh became less about going to F1.8 to start and more about making the choice to get a desired effect.

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