Tagged: photography

February 14, 2014 @ 7:15 am By JD Alois  |  

Crowdfunding on Kickstarter, Moment “Amazing Lenses for Mobile Photography” closed earlier today having raised $451,868 from 4722 backers.  This is 9 times the initial goal of raising $50,000 to fund the lenses for your mobile phone camera.  The campaign rocketed out of the gate doubling… Read More

January 16, 2014 @ 4:00 pm By JD Alois  |  

Kickstarter Project Creator Marc Barros Shares his Feedback at Campaigns Incredible Success. Moment, “Amazing Lenses for Mobile Photography” was a crowdfunding campaign we covered yesterday on their first day on Kickstarter.  The campaign set a targeted raise of $50,000.  As of today the campaign has… Read More

January 14, 2014 @ 2:37 pm By JD Alois  |  

I take a profound numbers of photos. Like many of you, I have long since given up on the “point & shoot” cameras and I just cannot lug around a DSLR camera.  I take take really great images too (honest!).  My iPhone 5 does a… Read More

September 28, 2013 @ 9:13 am By JD Alois  |  

The People of Kickstarter is a book about some of the most successful crowdfunding projects to have raised funds on the platform since their inception.  The Author, Andrew Gale from Anaheim, Calfornia, is right.  The world has changed for the better.  Crowdfunding is delivering a new… Read More

September 21, 2013 @ 9:53 am By JD Alois  |  

Welcome to Saturday morning and this week’s Crowdfunding Mailbox.  Please keep sending in those campaigns.  We recommend to everyone who is crowdfunding to review our Crowdfunding Guide.  We see a lot of campaigns that are very creative and have great merit but fall short of… Read More

September 7, 2013 @ 10:43 am By JD Alois  |  

This week we had tons of cool stuff come in.  I am still going through the pile of emails (and one real post card) from all the amazing crowdfunders from around the world.  I really love ready about incredible people coming up with unique ideas… Read More

August 28, 2013 @ 10:18 am By JD Alois  |  

The olloclip, an iPhone quick change camera lens, crowdfunded on Kickstarter back in the ancient days of crowdfunding in 2011.  The campaign set a goal of raising $15,000 but trounced that amount when 1300 delivered contributions in the amount of $68,201.  Successfully financed, founder Patrick… Read More

June 29, 2013 @ 1:17 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Lumu promises to be the “light meter for the 21st century,” and the light meter for the iPhone is fully funded on Kickstarter. The campaign page suggests that we live in the golden age of photography, and it’s hard to argue. As high-quality cameras become… Read More

June 11, 2013 @ 10:27 am By Charles Luzar  |  

Two PhD candidates from UCLA have a campaign on Kickstarter seeking $75,000 to bring the Spinpod to market. The Spinpod promises to help users capture high-quality panoramic images and time-lapse video easily with their smartphones and full cameras. “Our goal was to develop a device that… Read More

May 14, 2013 @ 10:59 am By Charles Luzar  |  

A pair of photography enthusiasts from Stanford, California have announced a Kickstarter campaign for Mount July camera filters. This set of three camera filters will screw onto any 58 or 52 mm lens, creating Instagram-like filtering for your digital camera. Olivia Vagelos and Martin Bush are… Read More

November 13, 2012 @ 10:05 am By Cursus  |  

(Staff Translation) Frances Dal Chele is a photographer. Italian-American, she has spent more years in Paris than in any other place on earth. And after she fell in love with the French Capital, she fell head over heels for Turkey. Not only the Turkey of… Read More

November 8, 2012 @ 7:36 am By Cnet  |  

Sometimes, as photography buffs, we run into problems during the photographic process that we wished could be solved by specialized accessories. Thankfully, there are photography enthusiasts–smarter than us–who have come up with some innovative solutions to some of the common problems in photography. Many of… Read More

October 30, 2012 @ 1:20 am By JD Alois  |  

THE MEANS by which landscape photographer Peter Cox raised the money for his latest book is nearly as impressive as the book itself. The Irish Light – A Collection of Landscape Photographs is a compilation of pictures taken over seven years. They depict dramatic landscapes… Read More