DIY
DIY: A Telescopic PVC Boom
What if you wanted to make the main post of the PVC light stand (as described by The Frugal Filmmaker) to be telescoping? Here’s one…
A Light Wall Of Light From Bed Sheets And PVC
The Lastolite Hilite is a really neat, lightweight, and portable high-key background that can double as a softbox. Oh, did I forget to mention what a bargain…
Build a Lynny – a DIY Lensbaby
This DIY project from Cameron Texter is made after a Lensbaby, but is built completely different. And when we say completely, we mean with tape….
The Nice Clip Keeps Your Lens Cap Attached
Lens caps are great when we are not shooting, they protect our lenses. But when we are shooting, there is always the question of where…
Camera Stabilizer On A Shoe String Budget
This is one of the more clever tricks I saw, and despite it being old, it is still great. The premise is that you can…
Convert Your Old Camera To A Backdrop Projector In 10 Easy Steps
If you own one of them 90’s film cameras and stopped using it because digital is so hip right now, you’re gonna dust it off…
Can You Make Computerized Shaped Bokeh?
As you probably know DIYP has a small feish for shaped bokeh (we even made a kit). Mike Pan was interested to see if a…
Fully Working 4×5 Camera Made Of LEGO Bricks
They say that if you set a 1,000,000 monkeys at 1,000,000 typewriters for 1,000,000 years and let them type randomly at the machines, one of…
Super Detailed DIY Ring Flash How To Video
I am not really sure how this 2008 awesome video duo went under the radar here at DIYP, but thanks to our alert readers (thanks…
Notebook-Size Platform For Tethered Shooting
Recently I treated myself to the Manfrotto 131DDB Double Head Support (USA) / (AUS) which allows me to mount both my camera and a laptop…




































