Tag: tutorial

  • Tutorial: Capturing The Lunar Eclipse

    Tutorial: Capturing The Lunar Eclipse

    Buy this print here. We’re honored, thank you. The above image, while not exactly viral, has netted 5000 views in 2 days. That’s a record for us here at ScaresMe. So, to repay your kindness, we thought we’d document how we processed the image. That way, when the next one occurs (September 28th 2015) you…

  • Tutorial: Building a Smaller 1st Person GoPro Hiking Rig

    Tutorial: Building a Smaller 1st Person GoPro Hiking Rig

    This is a follow-0n post to our previous tutorial. The rig works well on wide open trails but is a little awkward getting in and out of the car, and is a total nightmare when trying to use it in overgrown forests and other ‘tight’ spaces. So, we redesigned it! It’s now smaller and less…

  • Tutorial: Building a 1st person backpacking GoPro rig

    Tutorial: Building a 1st person backpacking GoPro rig

    We’re off up a big mountain soon and figured it would be cool to film the whole process. The hike should take 3 days so there’s no point making a movie, instead stop motion is required. We’re going to carry two cameras for this, one pointing where we’re going, the other where we’ve come from.…

  • Tutorial: Turning Star Trails into Comets (with Twinkles!)

    Tutorial: Turning Star Trails into Comets (with Twinkles!)

    Star trails can get boring. Let’s make twinkling comets! But first here’s a story for you. Back in the day, in darkest Winter, the Rangers at Yosemite National Park used to build a big fire on top of Glacier Point and when it was good & hot, they’d push it over the cliff and give…

  • Tutorial: making fire rain

    Tutorial: making fire rain

    This is beyond nuts. We don’t think we’ll be trying this one and recommend you don’t either. For the full details of how this is done, please check out Van Elder’s blog.

  • Tutorial: Milky water and Misty Forests

    Tutorial: Milky water and Misty Forests

    We spent the weekend in Paso Robles,  deep in the heart of the ‘other’ grape growing place in California. In addition to all the fine wines, there’s art everywhere, some of it even quite nice. The pictures that captured our attention was a series of paintings that depicted landscapes as viewed through thick fog. We…

  • Tutorial: Making a Fire Whip

    Tutorial: Making a Fire Whip

    We do a lot of dangerous things here but this one is off the charts. So hurt yourself, and you can’t come running to us. This is all about you and your boundaries. Let us show you how we made a Fire Wand / Fire Whip. Strictly speaking it’s not a whip because you can’t…

  • Tutorial: Caricature Big Head

    Tutorial: Caricature Big Head

    Adobe are running a competition (rather poorly in my opinion), where every week you get to enter a picture along a theme they’ve selected. This week is caricature week, so we decided to show you how to take a picture of an ugly man, and make him beautiful. Along the way we reference the soft…

  • Tutorial: Multiplicity – an Army of One

    Tutorial: Multiplicity – an Army of One

    This tutorial is about an image we made back in November 2011, when we were fortunate enough to find ourselves relaxing in Fiji. The image was actually a lot harder on Deanna than it was on me. All I had to do was sit on the helicopter landing pad and bark orders. She, poor thing,…

  • Tutorial: Rogue FlashBender at FurCon

    Tutorial: Rogue FlashBender at FurCon

    We’ve been to a few conferences / events recently where we’ve needed flash. But of course, you can’t wander around with your strobe on a mono-pod at these places, so off-camera flash is almost impossible.  Enter the Rogue FlashBender. A large-ish flexible bounce card that allows you aim light where you want it. It’s big…

  • Fire Whipping

    Fire Whipping

    Some of you may recall that I announced a while back on Facebook that I’d made a fire whip. Why you wonder have I not used it? Well, it’s freakin’ dangerous that’s why. We’ll post a tutorial soon on how we made these pictures, but for now just feel the warmth. We had to go…

  • Tutorial: Beautiful Smooth n Soft Skin

    Tutorial: Beautiful Smooth n Soft Skin

    Having seen my new LinkedIn picture, my beautiful wife wanted one of her own. Of course, she didn’t want the ‘aged’ version I did for myself (see here) but something a little more realistic. Pictures of her wouldn’t usually be the subject of a tutorial because she’s blessed with a radiant smile, sparkling eyes and…