DIY

    We Don’t Need No Light Meter,
    Nov 12, 2010 Udi Tirosh

    when I was your age we used to squint/half squint to measure light! OK, I am not that old. Actually my father didn’t even take…

    DIY Lightstand Bag Makes Your Assistant’s Life Easier
    Nov 4, 2010 Udi Tirosh

    Lagging lightstands is a bummer. They don’t fit in the bag. They are hard and pointy, and in general they create traction. Lots of traction….

    The $10 DIY Foamcore Softbox
    Oct 28, 2010 Udi Tirosh

    In this tutorial I will explain how I built the softbox used to take the image on the left. It is a 40cm X 40cm…

    DIY Three Strobes Bracket Will Triple Your Light
    Oct 15, 2010 Udi Tirosh

    We’ve had our share of dual strobe mounts before, but this is a first for a triple mount. And you’d need every bit of that…

    Using a Kitchen Timer To Create Panning Timelapse Movies
    Oct 14, 2010 Udi Tirosh

    We have had a post before where we shoed how to use a canon G9 camera and a bunch of opensource photography software (mainly CHDK)…

    Homemade Camera Panoramic Head
    Oct 4, 2010 Udi Tirosh

    The following post about creating a polycarbonate panoramic head was written by Barry Young. It is a slick design that uses semi-fixed drilled holes for…

    Endlessly Power Your Flash Lights With A Flashlight
    Sep 28, 2010 Udi Tirosh

    Photographer Matt Kenney came up with quite a clever way to provide external power to his battery operated strobe (Canon 430EXII). Instead of building a…

    How To Take Photographs For Manuals
    Sep 23, 2010 Udi Tirosh

    I am involved with a large project that needs photographs for their step-by-step instructions manual. The same regular lighting and placement challenges are there, but…

    Paddy For Lightroom Adjusts Images Via Hotkeys, Midi Controllers and External Keyboards
    Sep 16, 2010 Udi Tirosh

    If your photography workflow includes using Lightroom, you may wanna take a close look at Paddy For Lightroom an open source DIYish method of assigning…

    DIY PVC Table/Skater Dolly For Video Photography
    Sep 13, 2010 Martin Taylor

    If you’ve been following some of the video tutorials we’ve had here at DIYP, you probably noticed the skateboard dolly that was featured here a…