As you may or may not know, many people on twitter will tweet out recommendations of who they think others should follow every Friday. (despite me initially thinking #FF meant Foo Fighters). Because Snooki does this, I thought we should too!
The above photo comes from www.adventure-journal.com. The Adventure Journal is one of my favorite places to go and check on awesome products, industry news, great photography, and stories about people pushing the limit. One such story that caught my attention is this story about "dry tooling." This is something I hadn't heard of before, but essentially it is ice climbing without the ice. It looks crazy and is somewhat controversial. Click the photo to check out more.
Earlier I promised some amateur photography DIY posts, and here ya go. Since I got my iPhone, I wanted to put that sexy camera to use. To do that, I really needed to stabilize the camera on a tripod. This would allow me to get steadier shots, time-lapse videos, etc. It won't get me any where close to Simon Carter's level of photography work, but it's a cheap start.
I found a few commercial mounts like the glif or this universal mount. However, I wasn't satisfied with those options. I didn't like that the glif required a "naked" iPhone, and the universal mount was made of flimsy plastic (which some reviewers say breaks very easily).
So, I decided to create my own tripod mount with some materials I found around my house and a quick trip to Home Depot. I went through a few designs before landing on the one shown in the video above. The most expensive piece was the 1/4" connecting cap nuts at almost 5 dollars for a 4 pack. If you wanted to substitute it for a bolt and some nuts, I think that could work as well, but would require some more work to get it attached as well as the connecting cap nut. I won't do a written DIY on this one because the video should be simple enough to follow. If you have any questions, just ask in the comments below.
Check out this time-lapse video I did using this mount and my UltraPod II tripod and some magnetic wide-angle iPhone lenses. The video shows Cameron and Phil cutting out an ampersand to be used for engagement photos.
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