DIY
DIY built-in pop-up flash diffuser (soft screen)
Why spend a fortune on an on-camera softscreen diffuser? (OK, 9 dollars are hardly a fortune, yet…). This guest post by Huy Hoang shows you…
Studio lighting – Homemade Softbox Ring For SB or Flash Speedlight
Tim from Chicago was using translucent umbrellas to get diffusion out of his flash speedlights. This was his home grown studio. When he switched to…
DIY – Using Clamps As Flash Light Stands
As part of the light stand frenzy that’s been going on here, I thought I’d introduce you to another way of placing a flash on…
DIY – Homemade Speedlite “Snoot”
This guest post was written by Leann Wrightsman, a photo DIY-er extraordinaire. This snoot making article has one of the best effort to result ratio….
DIY – The Panorama Head El Cheapo!
How to take good panoramas? Sounds simple, right? Take some shots with some overlapping landscape, go to your favorite stitching software, and stitch them up…
Studio DIY – Softboxing The World – A Home Grown Softbox
A softbox is a studio thingy that professional photographers use on their studios. Why? for a couple of reasons. For one thing, softboxes create a…
Do it yourself – Project Lightbox
Pedro G. Dias came up with a way to make one sturdy light box. This article will tell the Story of The Making of the…
Super easy hardware store light-backdrop stand
Tim Boesenkool has sent this awesome idea on how you can make a DIY backdrop stand that reaches all the way to the ceiling, without…
DIY – Reverse Macro Ring
As everybody knows, macro lens are expensive. Daniel Kyaw has a great way of creating a macro reverse ring for practically nothing. Reverse rings can…
Lighting tip – 4 ways to bounce a flash
As you probably can tell from the lighting articles on this site, I am not a great fan of on camera flash. The thing is…





































