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Notebook-Size Platform For Tethered Shooting

Aug 11, 2011 Udi Tirosh

Recently I treated myself to the Manfrotto 131DDB Double Head Support (USA) / (AUS) which allows me to mount both my camera and a laptop…

Aug 3, 2011 Udi Tirosh

If you shoot any dSLR video, you probably already know that some scenes reacquire shifting focus between several planes. This is a great way to…

Jul 26, 2011 Udi Tirosh

Flickr user Stargazer95050 found a neat way to organize his photo gear in a drawer. Using the grooves bumps and slits of a cutlery tray…

Jul 25, 2011 Udi Tirosh

Sometimes you’d wanna mount a camera next to the driver. This gives you a great POV as the shotgun passenger. For stills you may wanna…

Jul 25, 2011 Udi Tirosh

We’ve had our share of building cyc wall guides. (A cyc wall or a Cyclorama is a curved background that gives you that infinite white…

Jul 6, 2011 Udi Tirosh

If you were not impressed with the La Guillotine DIY camera, we are taking another stub with the KDS-POTO2. KDS-POTO2 is a camera designed and…

Jul 3, 2011 Udi Tirosh

Here is a hack we have never explored before, film development. If you ever been to a darkroom (and I mean the real ones, not…

Jul 1, 2011 Udi Tirosh

We have featured a bunch of pop up flash diffused before as a poorman’s alternative to getting some nice diffused light. Build materials ranged from…

Jun 29, 2011 Udi Tirosh

There are lots of ways to use a large scrim, you can use it to create partial shade, reflect natural light, or fire strobes into…

Jun 22, 2011 Udi Tirosh

About three weeks ago, I asked DIYP readers to build a softbox. It was meant for fun and education. To add some zap the good…