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If you’re looking for something a little different to do on your next photographic outing, consider “camera tossing”. This is where you set your camera’s shutter on self-timer mode, then throw it in the air and see what kind of photograph it takes.

You can read more about it at Camera Toss (The Blog), including _nod’s tossing guide for beginners and the Camera Toss Mini-HOWTO.

Here are a few interesting shots taken using this method:

• supertoss2, made by throwing a Supersampler camera in the air (this camera takes 4 photos in rapid succession on a single frame of 35mm film)
• calligraphies, Photoshopped camera toss images
• multishot toss, made using a camera in multi-shot mode and then joining the images together
• the Flickr Camera Toss page for lots more

Most people seem to use cheap or disposable cameras for this type of photography (for obvious reasons!), but at least one person has been doing it with an EOS 10D.

If you’ve done some camera tossing, feel free to post links to your results in the comments below.

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