This photograph results from exposing a pinhole camera while it’s spinning around on a record player. A simple yet creative idea, huh?

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Image credit: follow the tunes.. by Tim Franco and used with permission

Drew Kunz has a pretty neat way of creating abstract pinhole photographs. Using a film canister as his “camera”, he drills small holes into rolls of color film, distresses the film further with a small nail, and then develops the exposed film first with coffee and sodium carbonate, and finally with C-41.

This next image was created in a different manner than the others. Fuji 400 film was immersed in water, frozen, drilled into, and then exposed to light for five minutes, resulting in this:

To see more distressed film photos by Kunz, check out this set on Flickr.

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Image credit: Photographs by Drew Kunz and used with permission

Next time you’re attend a fireworks display, try shooting your photographs or video out of focus. This video by Danny Cooke is a pretty beautiful look at what you can achieve by doing this. What’s more, if you focus on the spectators in the foreground, it looks like they’re watching bokeh fireworks as well!

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Some wedding photographers offer a package that includes an iPad pre-loaded with images from that special day.

It’s a simple, yet brilliant way to get both bride and (especially) groom more excited about the album — while assuring their photos won’t lie forgotten in a dusty album years later.

The digital trend is catching on, said Pennsylvania-based photographer Daniel Lanton, who bundles the iPad with engagement photos. Lanton said in an interview with Tampa Bay Online that the iPad it adds a bit more immediacy to the images, as well as a sort of permanence in a new digital age:

“I just foresee a time when the wedding album becomes non-existent or continues falling away … Now I’m selling more iPads with bound albums. I sold six in the first week.”

Another photographer, Florida-based Stephen Yanni said that future grooms light up when they see the iPad package:

“If I’m presenting photo packages to a bride and groom, I can tell you when the guy sees that iPad, he sits up, and gets excited for the first time in the whole wedding-planning process.”

Of course, if you plan on actually taking the iPad with you everywhere you go, it’s a good idea to also keep a physical photo album somewhere, even if it’s in the darkest recesses of a closet. Hard copies may fade and collect dust, but they  are much less likely to have a data failure, break, or get stolen.

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The cute photo above of a surprise photo booth proposal is making its arounds around the Internets right now. Angela writes on her blog,

These are the pictures from when we got engaged. I have no idea in frames one and two and am really confused in frame three (lets never make that face again!) and really surprised in frame four.

Turns out the idea of popping the question unexpectedly in a photo booth in order to capture the resulting (priceless) expression is quite popular.

For the above proposal, Michael created a Flickr thread asking other Houston residents if they knew of any nearby photo booths. Needless to say, they came through, and mission accomplished. Later on, Michael included the Flickr thread in his wife’s scrapbook.

Kaylen writes the following about the above proposal:

I was sitting on his lap as I fed the bills inside the machine. The first picture is cute. The second picture is awkward because he’s shifting his weight to get into his pocket and I have to move. The third picture? Well…

Melody writes on her blog:

Derek lured me into a photobooth to take some fun photos, little did I know, that he had already taken pictures with proposal notes! When he handed me the photobooth strips for safe keeping, he had slipped the proposal in there. When I looked at it I just about fainted. First of all, I had never told him that before I ever even met him I used to say that a photobooth proposal would be the BEST way to get engaged! And second of all, how stinking romantic. I mean, my goodness. Does he know me, or what?! Truly a dream come true. After much screaming and crying (all happy), I said “YES!!!”

Jenna writes on her blog:

I’ve been a little MIA from the blogging world this past week because I got engaged!!! In a photobooth at the Ace Hotel, none the less. I was completely surprised! It was perfect!

There you have it guys: a possible idea if you love photography and memory-making just as much as you love your girlfriend. For the ladies out there, if you want to perform some Inception, just link your significant others to this post!

Update: Do you have a photo booth proposal photo yourself or know someone that does? Link us to it in the comments and we’ll see if we can include it in this collection!

Image credits: Photographs by Angela and Ithyle, Michael Glasgow, Kaylen, Melody, and Eric H. and used with permission

Here’s a really great way to turn photos from a novelty camera into something of practical use — make the photos into mini magnetic dry erase boards! Photojojo has some nifty ideas and instructions for turning Polaroid or Instax prints into colorful refrigerator magnets, a perpetual photo calendar, reusable magnetic reminder notes, and more.

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What if you could have a rubber stamp that had a built in camera, allowing it to instantly change the stamp design to “print” a photograph? Would it be a stamp camera or a camera stamp? Either way, we think it’s a nifty idea!

The Stampy Digital Camera is a concept camera by Jinhee Kim that has a lens built into the handle and an LCD built into the base. Here’s a breakdown of the components:

Too bad it’s only a concept, eh? Do you think we’ll see anything like this anytime in the near future?

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What if you could keep your camera charged all day while shooting outdoors using the power of the sun? That’s the idea behind this conceptual camera strap designed by Weng Jie. The solar panels built into the strap harvest energy from the sun beating down on your neck as you’re shooting away.

Many cameras would need to specifically allow for this strap, but do you think this idea is feasible?

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Here’s a neat birthday card idea for the Polaroid or photography lovers in your life: make a hand-drawn Polaroid camera spit out a real instant photo! Kayla Davis received this card from her friend Chrissie for her 19th birthday.

Do I have the most awesome friend or what? My friend Chrissie made me this birthday card. It’s one of the coolest cards I’ve ever gotten!

If you’re ambitious, try taking it to the next level by making the card a “pop-up” card that has a 3D camera. That would be something.

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Image credit: Photo by Kayla Davis and used with permission

Here’s an amazingly awesome idea for business cards if you’re a photographer or photo enthusiast. Brooklyn-based photographer and designer Steph Goralnick created the above business card by hand, embedding some film between two layers of heavy stock. The resulting business card looks like 35mm slide film, except the film used was a negative.

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