Last week’s newsletter had several examples of pinhole cameras people made from unusual materials. Now that you’ve filled up on Grilled SPAM sandwiches, you’ll be happy to know the instructions for Chris Keeney’s SPAMera are posted. Build your own and share the images in Photojojo’s Flickr group.

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It is easy to forget, with all the shiny bells and whistles of digital, that photography wasn’t always something the masses had access to. Shorpy.com is a photo blog showcasing images taken a hundred years ago.

From the site

“How people looked and what they did for a living, back when not having a job usually meant not eating. We’re starting with a collection of photographs taken in the early 1900s by Lewis Wickes Hine as part of a decade-long field survey for the National Child Labor Committee, which lobbied Congress to end the practice. One of his subjects, a young coal miner named Shorpy Higginbotham, is the site’s namesake.”

Great idea and lots of fun for photography history geeks (guilty!).

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You want to jazz up your camera (or other electronics), but you don’t want to commit to a permanent modification. What can you do?

You can use SkinIt to jazz up your camera (Kodak only right now). The list of supported devices is current, but according to their FAQ they are “constantly working with device manufactures and retailers to support the latest and greatest devices”

If you don’t have a Kodak camera, don’t fret! Just because your camera has to go naked doesn’t mean you’ve been left out in the cold. SkinIt also lets you upload your photos and create your own skins for many of your electronic lifelines.

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We’ve featured an Orton effect tutorial before on Photojojo. It’s a great way to enhance your pictures and salvage those slightly out-of-focus ones.

Photojojo reader someotherbob has created a video tutorial for a new method he calls “the 3 Layer” Orton effect. We always like to see people put their own spin on things.

More information is in this Flickr discussion thread.

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Israeli computer scientists have developed an algorithm that takes a photo of your face as input, spitting back a slightly more beautiful version of you as output. Uses statistical analysis based on surveys of what people find beautiful.

Link: The Beauty Function [via]

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Wow. Adobe says they’ll have a web-based Photoshop in 6 months. If there was any doubt that the web is the future of software…

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