DIY
Home Studio – Third Hand Lighting Pole
Reader Mike Coutinho saw the post about the studio compression pole, and this triggered something in his mind. Mike told me about the Third Hand…
DIY homemade GaryFong Like Light Sphere
Gary Fong has become a de-facto standard for speed light diffusion. The accessories made by Gary include the famous Lightsphere and lots of other small…
Studio Lighting – The Ghetto Studio
Just Fab has come up with a great PVC contraption she calls the Ghetto Studio. It’s a great and portable setup that takes great Glamuor…
Great High Speed Photography Trigger by Tom Barnett
Tom Barnett (pxlsnfr) has come up with some great High Speed Photography shots. Tom uses very basic circuitry to trigger the flash on “hearing noise”…
Let Your Camera See The World – Kite Aerial Photography
The guys over at make magazine made a pretty awesome tutorial about constructing a Kite Aerial Photography (KAP) kit. They also have a cool video…
Studio Lighting – The Cheapest Ring Light Ever
Reader B.Stevens has a cool idea for the cheapest most versatile ring light ever (now we have shown some ringlights before, but not that easy…
Studio Lighting – Lighting Diagrams, Planning and Explaining
Sometimes you want to make a diagram of your photo session. (OK, sometimes you don’t, but sometimes you do). I, for example, am going to…
Lighting – High Key and Low Key
After discussing contrast at a very top level view, I would like to introduce two twins, closely related to contrast – High Key and Low…
Studio Lighting – Homemade Gridspot
Gridspot (or grid) is a studio accessory that you can attach to your flash. When the flash fires through the grid, the spread of the…
The Standard 3-Point Lighting Technique
One of the oldest lighting techniques in the book is called “Three Point Lighting”. It is vastly used in studio photography and by snobby fashion…




































