Bringing sculpture to life with your iPhone and the jitterbug effect.

I’m obsessed with making sculpture appear more human. Sculptors intended for their work to be a representation of life, so it seems logical that videographers would want to use a technique that brings out this human quality. In traditional time-lapse video, a stationary tripod is used so the subject is stagnant and the background moves. Traditional hyper-lapse video is often shot as stills so both the subject and background move and motion is kept as smooth as possible. With the jitterbug effect, a super-wide lens in combination with time-lapse recording adds a jittery movement to a close subject while keeping the background relatively motionless. It’s used specifically for animating three-dimensional sculpture that represents living beings.

Throwback Thursday: The entreprenettes.

Want to thank me? Buy Me a Coffee.

You give people advice on Quora. You write a blog post to review something you’ve found useful. You do a quick video to show how to do something and save yourself the time of showing people how to do it over and over again. Or you even bake your next door neighbor a cake on their birthday. A lot of people just do nice things for others because, well—that’s what they do. If this is you, Buy Me a Coffee is an unobtrusive way for others to show their gratitude in return.

Copying 35mm slides with the Moment 10x Macro lens and your iPhone.

*Update: This article has been updated with the Moment Macro T series lens.

Somewhere in a shoebox you probably have a handful of precious family snapshots on 35mm slides that you’ve thought would be great to have on your iphone. Like that one of crazy ol’ Uncle Fritz standing on the track in front of an oncoming train long before death-defying selfies were cool.

If you have a Moment Macro lens accessory for your iPhone, Galaxy or Pixel, you can easily copy these yourself. Note that the technique below has been tested on an iPhones. Results with other phones may vary.

The Minimalist iPhone Shoot Kit: Your phone, your brain.

This article shows you the simple tricks to get the most out of shooting with just your iPhone, no accessories required.

Many famous photographers (Henri Cartier Bresson and Steve McCurry among them) shot with a 35mm camera body and a 50mm prime lens most of their careers. These masters knew their camera and lens well enough to take spectacular, out-of-the-ordinary photos with the most ordinary lens. They had no kit to slow them down: just a camera with one lens and a pocketful of film.